Enforcer Jacobis awayat a special school, learning how to cope with his coming blindness. A new threat has entered Protectorate life to destroy the fragile peace for members and citizens. Clarence Foster has organized a group of young men with the intention to overthrow the government. Jason Aurelius and Aaron are caught in the field tending patients when violence comes to their basically quiet town. They are forced to seek refuge with the Stuffer family. Many others in the field have been murdered. Including two members who have stood by Jason Aurelius as loyal Enforcers. If that isn't enough for Healer to handle, Aaron tells him the truth about the venom which Frederick administered when he was twenty-one. A safeguard venom to keep him pure, not a dictator like Luther Manfred. There will come a time when it stabilizes. But what must he endure until that date in the future?