Assassins are trying to kill him and Ferron has no idea why Fleeing through a wilderness full of danger, Ferron finds himself in the city of Momar, where he meets an old master thief named Haffiest. Haffiest spares the boy's life for reasons that are unclear even to him - until he returns home. Carriel, who is Haffiest's wife of more than forty years, tells him that the boy must survive because he is to do something important and they are to help...