Taela is an orphaned girl desperately trying to care for herself and her brother Xanir. She runs errands in the city market, unnoticed, insignificant, a nobody. That is, until Taela attracts attention in high places - attention she knows will just mean danger for them both. Taela's choices could end up changing the lives of an entire world, but with dark times on the horizon, nobody knows whether those changes will be for better or worse. Can Taela and Xanir take control of their own fates, and the strange things happening all around them, or will they be forced to surrender to those who would have them silenced?