For forty years, the Hiver menace has left devastation in its wake: prisoners bound in cocoons, trapped in living death, with no known way to safely free them.

Then the dragons of Castitarus, the Numenjax, chose Confri to become caretaker for a Numenjax egg and pair with the hatchling. Hope returned to the caretakers of hundreds of cocoons, when young Jax's presence awoke brain activity within the cocoons.

Now, in the wake of the mission to Xanprecis and the shattering of a broken Gate, the missing element might finally be in the hands of the Alliance. Will Jax be able to harness the untamed, alien energy, and break the hold the cocoons hold on their prisoners?

M'kar, Thyal, the Defender and all their dracs return to Anwesta Medical Station to make that risky first attempt.