"Memento mori, John Murphy. Remember you will die." Laurence is both a healer and a killer. She uses a spear like an extra limb, and a scalpel as effortlessly as a pen. As soon as the sky people land, she resents them for everything they are. But when she finds John Murphy in the middle of the woods drowning in his own blood and almost dead, she finds herself wanting to save him. And as she finds herself developing feelings for him, she realises that it could be her great glory or her great tragedy.