Sirana crosses a treeless grassland, the dark foreigner among pale-skinned mercenaries, where each day assaults her senses and leads her farther away from home. Her mission leads her out of isolation to the first Human settlement in her path, an unforgiving test of her training and preparation. Portents and politics warn of danger in every direction, and threatening dreams obfuscate a Dark Elf's past with a Red Sister's present.