Sixteen-year-old Inglis Eucus has more to deal with than just a haywire Artifact practically putting her back in the stroller—Eris's weapon form as a hieral menace is broken too! What better excuse to visit Highland in search of a solution? Inglis gets everything she wants and more, with a warm—no, blistering—welcome from mechanical dragons before she even sets foot on dry land.

But as Inglis and her friends will soon learn, life is made of meetings and partings.