Description
"We will rule all of these lands, he was saying. "I am your father and I shall provide. Too long we have been small-now is the time to grow, to expand, to claim what should be ours.
The ghosts of our forebears will rise up, and we will be mighty...
Back in her adopted village of Bassorah, Vancy has recovered
from her adventure on the Hinterland. With her friends, Kerei and Squirt, she has found out where she came from, and taken a stand against her birth father, the tyrant Herit. But on the night of her coming-of-age party, disturbing news reaches Bassorah. Herit has called for his daughter to join him in his great stone fortress, or Bassorah will face the full force of his anger. It seems a new evil is gathering across the wide plains of the Hinterland.
