After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading canim, tavi of calderon, now captain of the first aleran legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the canim exists--the mysterious threat that drove th...After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading canim, tavi of calderon, now captain of the first aleran legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the canim exists--the mysterious threat that drove the savage canim to flee their homeland. Now, tavi must find a way to overcome the centuries-old animosities between aleran and cane if an alliance is to be forged against their mutual enemy.