Elwere - city of rainbows, where the fortunes of the planet Oroga are
concentrated in the grasping hands of the privileged few. To David,
stolen from Elwere as a baby and raised as a thief of the Lower City, it
is a dream of paradise, a treasure trove to which he must find the key,
no matter what the cost... And Eschteef - a schrift of the
jewel-and-precious-metals schtann, twice the size of a human, more than
twice as strong, with frightfully glowing eyes and rows of needle-sharp
teeth. It, too, has a dream, a dream of which David has suddenly become
the crucial focus. And once a schrift has chosen, nothing can change its
path.
Elwere or the Alien - two different roads to the future, leading to
either wealth and power - or death...