Sitha, the original guardian of the Life Tree watches it for millenniums. She watches as people make their pilgrimage to it to place bells, a form of peace offering, on the branches. One day she sees an odd man watching her. This strange young man begins to come every day and Sitha can tell that there is something familiar but very wrong about him. As she searches for an answer, she finds that she may not want it as bad as she once thought. But what is it?