There are few people like Jaea and Tharen, if any. They look just like anybody else, complete with "tattoos", but they aren't quite human. Separated from their families and homes as children, they have searched for their origins for years with no success. Jaea has accepted that they may never know more about their kind, and is resigned to living a life of hiding half of herself from her peers. But when an unexpected clue is revealed, it turns Jaea and Tharen's world upside down. For the price of answers is steep and means leaving Earth altogether. A kingdom in turmoil, an unlikely ally, the occasional dragon...What could go wrong?