Schierke and Isidro have to face a bunch of pirates who are engaged in a trafficking of orphaned Kushans. Meanwhile, Princess Charlotte decides to follow Griffi th in her dreams of conquests. But this volume especially highlights the character of Farnese, found by members of her family and especially by her father. He, accusing his daughter of desertion following the massacre of the troupe of the sacred steel chains, decides to keep her recluse at the castle of Vandimon...