The job should've been simple, but in Boruin's experience, nothing ever
is. Somehow, the young mute boy he's been hired to bring in can read the
mysterious runes on his arms. Somehow, this boy can create magic with
them. And somehow, Bourin's blank past is suddenly full of questions
he's desperate to answer. As a simple job transforms from betrayal into
the beginnings of an epic journey, Bourin seeks out answers to his past
with his trusted companions: Wraithe, a protector whose methods
sometimes turn violent; Pile, a young relic-hunter; and Toaaho, sworn to
Bourin's servitude with marks of his own. As they cross mysterious
jungles full of monsters, floating forests full of flying sharks, and
cave systems teeming with golems, Bourin begins to understand his fate
is inexorably entwined with the boy's. But does that spell his
salvation, or his doom? Life on the Pilean continent grows more
interesting by the hour...