Stephen Strange has lost pretty much everything. From learning about his parents death, to watching and waiting as his aunt and uncle died on the operating table, to losing the last person he ever truly loved. The only thing that is going for him is his job, his life's work. When he doesn't even have his work anymore, he gives up on his life and devotes his life to the teachings of Kamar-Taj. When he arrives, he doesn't feel like he fits in at all, but there is one person there who seems almost familiar to him. Asteria Carson has been a student and then Mistress of the teachings of Kamar-Taj since life made her an orphan.