I trusted them. I trusted them all. Yet they left me here alone in the dark. Why? Zaera isn't like everyone else in her village. She lives in a place full of Mountain Shadows yet she is the only Flaming Souleater that lives there. If anyone finds out she is a Flaming Souleater she will be executed. The small amount of Flaming Souleaters that escaped from being executed are still out there, out from the village. Zaera wonders what it's like for them. To be free, with people only their species. She can imagine what life is like for them as much as she pleases, But making that actually happen is the hard part.