Arundill is 6 years old when she is bought by the sad-smile alchemist to become both her disciple and her adopted daughter... Twenty years have passed. Today the young woman belongs to the Order of Shadows and she swore to find the one she had taken for a father and who taught her great Art. She burns to revenge for what he has made her suffer, even if for that she has to break the rules and become herself a prey for her order.