A young lady Jakkai named Ashshade has strange magics that "no mere mortal should have", by her elder's words.  Banished
from her home by the threat of a witch-hunt, she struggles to survive and to understand the powers she has come across.
As she arrives in Jeryon, a port town of the nation of Penaria, she must decide what to do with herself, and find more
information about her powers...