With 50,000 freed slaves at their back, Raz i'Syul Arro and Syrah Brahnt
leave the savannahs of Perce behind. Karesh Syl is no more. Karesh Nan
burns in their wake. Beyond the border before them the South looms,
ready and waiting, and together Raz and Syrah pray they are prepared for
the great offense they must now undertake against the fringe cities.
All the while, however, another threat has threaded her way into the
ranks of the Mahsaden, and is waiting only for the right time to pull
her web of woven fire tight....