From the introduction: “1st year under the Silver Branch. They say that you’re gone for good, but I cannot bring myself to believe it. How could I? You have already pulled off so many impossible feats during these turbulent years; what is yet another? If anyone could escape this fate, it would be you. If you see this while I am away, please wait for me here. I shall be back by summer’s end.” You are a traveller making a journey in the aftermath of a calamity.