Ambros inches slowly towards the balance spoken of by Ochleos Rox. Forces can still destabilise a world struggling for equilibrium. A vengeful Malekim rides for his centre of power – the Keep in the south. The mages on Yarilo watch the rogue mage with some anxiety.
There is chaos across much of Ambros that can cause strife and imbalance. Cities are destroyed or uninhabitable and slaves, freed, wander dispossessed and bitter.
And what of the children who hold the balance?
One flees across Ambros to escape an unwanted destiny, another must return to the Keep and another tries for stability in an alien society which is in ferment and as destabilised as elsewhere on Ambros. Times of treachery and betrayal may soon come to the Churchik world that could affect others.
Light begins to dance on Ambros but there are still shadows. The bonding that will bring peace has begun.