Tessa Alma has recently escaped the SEM academy, an encampment for "deviant postulates". Exhausted, injured, drenched with blood and sweat she trudges forward to the unknown horizon. Anger and confusion of her fathers mysterious disappearance drive her feet forward. Her distrust for everything that she once held as true sends her on a journey of discovering things long covered by the leaders of the 7 cities, and her fathers disappearance.