As the Autlach cleric Longpass' assault on the Tekkroon colony's mountain stronghold increases, Rankil Danston struggles to keep her wounded psyche intact. Though she is one of the Tekkroon colony's Power Barrier Troopers, the bravest of warrior Taelachs, she can no longer ignore her wounded child's cries for recognition nor the flashbacks that accompany those cries.