For Addis of Lexor, a descent into darkness is the only way to see the light. As a slave in the desert city of Lexor, twelve-year-old Addis longs for the fulfillment of a prophecy foretelling his heroic destiny to liberate his people from an evil tyrant. But what will keep him from becoming a wicked tyrant himself?When his blind father's life is threatened by an imminent exile, a mysterious old blind man named Barius thrusts Addis into a desperate...