She is a vengeful blaze. He is a maelstrom monolith. For years, together, the siblings have been disrupting the empire anywhere the Shepherds would send them. Until they return to this city where they lost their cousin, to a youthful mistake. In a tavern of regular folk, one stands out. With a talent, so unlike their own or any they know. Another mistake and the siblings need to spirit away the girl with the red hair.

In a world where one man ruled his empire with an iron fist, men and women fled, hiding away. The Elements banded together and shepherded them, healed and nourished them. Four hundred years and many failed assassinations later, the same man rules and the Shepherds still helplessly resist, the Elements hidden within their ranks.

Is the girl with the unfamiliar talent the key to the Emperor's demise?