In a world ancient with civilisations, where ruins and mysteries and monsters abound, the adventurous thrive. Such are Fianna, the sword-maiden, and Carse, the man of the civilised cities, better known as Peregrine and Blade. Returning to Qaiqala, greatest of cities, the adventurous duo find themselves the targets of assassins, and embark on a fight that plunges them into the darkness. Darkness in the Flames is a novelette of 8,500 words