For as long as Xinyu 'Liu' Chen can remember, the village of Lionsgate in the tiny rural Scrap Area #18 has been her home. If the city could have a mayor nicer than Lyutskan Vladimirov Dimitrov, it would have had one: Cileia Green. 'Oh, she'd be good mayor because blah. She'd been an Amazonian warrior once,' people say. All Liu wants to know...however, is that she gets out of the town and makes a statement to the King of Ardonia, King Celsa. Like most things, that won't be easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey, Xinyu!" Alice yelled. "Come here, would you?"