In a single day and night of fierce fighting , the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant neighbour, Parros. The lost priest kingdom's surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hide in a forest in the forbidding wild marches. Then they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man's body and a leopard's head who has just emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only his name, Guin. The critically acclaimed fantasy classic by Japan's queen of the genre now available in paperback.