Arik used to live in Vroorttown, a boisterous factory territory where he helped build huge steam engines.He used to live there, but not anymore. He fled because he caused a horrible accident and remaining in Vroorttown would mean certain death.For months Arik avoided capture by going ever deeper in a huge forest where he vowedto set up a tiny camp and stay lost forever.Finally, he felt safe.Then a woman chanced upon his camp.The encounter triggered a series of events that not only revealed her as a Mancer, a race that Arik fears and hates; but forces them to flee the forest together and enter an unexplored wasteland.There's no going back for either of them.Now, Arik must decide whether to stay with the hated invader to find a way out of the wasteland together, or leave her there and take his chances alone.
