Calesh Saissan is a captain of the Hand of the Lord, a military Order fighting in Tura d'Madai. But he has no faith in the God he seems to serve. The purpose of the Hand is to distract attention, so the All-Church will not notice the heresy growing in its homeland of Sart ne. Now word has reached Calesh that the charade has failed. The heresy has been revealed, and the All-Church will turn its next Crusade west, into Sart ne. So Calesh comes home,...