Nearly a decade had come to pass since Rushi left her home. 9 years since she'd left her family, her city, her country, because whatever gods there were ordained her fit to carry a mark. But now, as Erdas begins to succumb to the whims of darkness, she must face the things she left, and make amends for her actions. - I do not own the Spirit Animal franchise/books/game, or anything of the sort. I own Rushi and Lixue and their concurrent, original plot. This story is in the process of being reconstructed. This book will have more mature themes more graphic descriptions of gore than in my original ff and in the original books. The concept of the books is actually very dark, and the reality is most of battles described would not be as PG as they are written and I am trying to express a better sense of some of the horrors these children went through over the course of the books.