The old captain of the Grey Wolf Company hesitated for a long time when he was offered to buy this half-Aeldr'Aar girl, a bastard of one of the most fearsome creatures of Abimus. The meagre and half-wild child could prove valuable in a company of Libres-Lames, but she could also lead them to disaster, because the blood of the Aldr'Aar bears a terrible curse in him...