The second book in the Nivian King series takes our hero to the Ice Scabbard, a place of peril; a place of adventure.Tulai and his son Shev'la have escaped to the urba of Casus. The Ice Scabbard, a tavern filled with the strikingly strange, is where Shev'la befriends the underground rebel leader Ira Levin. But Tulai's political activism and dire warnings of the blue Nivian is going to change the fate of Seranor herself.