Arun has been imprisoned for years in Kaltë's gallows, but he survives in spite of the cold, the deprivation, the violence and the creatures that haunt the dark underground. He digs fear in the belly, in search of the rarest and most precious of Draal's resources: the black orbs. He tries to forget his past, gnawed by guilt and despair, until the day when the legendary captain of the company of the White Cross comes to offer him hope of redemption. Then follows a bloody quest that will inexorably bring him back to his past.