Worlds once alive are being destroyed; worlds once dormant must be brought back to life.
Weapons that have long been wielded must be returned to the sheath; things never truly grasped must be wielded as weapons.
What can Ada do, as planets burn under the inexorable advance of a machine fleet? What can Isavel do, from a shackled homeworld that has not been heard from in a thousand years?
And what might they both do, if they were no longer alone?
When seals are broken and barriers fail, when distances shrink to nothing and options dwindle into despair, both Ada and Isavel see only one way forward into a world that still lives on the other side of the fire:
Let all hell break loose. All at once. And pray chaos is on their side.