Neela's year of outpost captaincy is over.

Upon her return to the Ace of Spades headquarters, she's assigned to head her own team and set out on a mission to retrieve the unbound with tres vires in order to protect them from the leader of the rogues. To her absolute joy, her team is made up of her close friends, and she finds herself back in the company of her loved ones.

Despite this joyful reunion, Neela struggles to find the spark she lost at the start of her captaincy. Her prophesized role as the child of light still weighs heavy on her shoulders. After a chance encounter with a special unbound, the burden increases in the form of questions about how the future will unfold. However, with the discovery of a long-lost family member, a new wealth of information is opened to her along with building confusion.

Each new revelation only brings a whirlwind of questions.