My mother died early and my father reluctantly sent me from the city to be cared for in the country. I've always been a mystery to myself. I wondered why I was different from everyone else, who I really was and who I was meant to be. My name, Chrysanthemum, wasn't the most helpful clue. I thought I was content to just wonder until I met a boy who turned my whole understanding of the world upside down. Having unwittingly survived the Pernicious Forest that separated the north and south parts of the Kingdom he was lost and helpless. It was now my mission to bring him home, however impossible that may seem. Will I be able to reunite him with his mother and discover my true identity, or will I suffer the same gruesome fate that most face in the forest?