The Rules of the Past: The First Rule

12-year-old Makota Suzin doesn't believe in holding her breath when she passes a graveyard. That is until a shapeshifter from the 11th century mysteriously appears on her doorstep grumbling about lost time and irritable youth.

Sir Suyga Hon the Shapeshifter takes Suzin to a different place, a place where rules enlighten and lift rather than suffocate their prisoners, a place where Suzin feels overwhelmed and out-of-place.

Makota Suzin's past lives look on as she and Hon struggle to find her first Rule of The Past, which involves watching on as Hon's life flashes by, in order the lay Hon to rest.