In the previous volume, Akanah was only a frightened little girl, ready to do anything to protect her brother from the ravages of the Veill. Twelve years later, now Novice of the Order of Dragon Knights, she is entrusted, with her comrade Eleanor, to escort the knight Oris on a diplomatic mission to the Pics of Haute-Pierreuse. Jan, a young cartographer, accompanies them, with only protection against the Veill, a talisman dedicated to the order of Aman... But while a tender friendship binds him gradually to Akanah, the danger is no longer far away...