It's a peaceful night on the island of Nyct. The Tribe sleeps soundly to the music of the waves and the winds. Then, the peace is broken with screams and blood. Girls from the island are snatched from their sleep, hauled below deck of a ship that had been haunting the waters of Oxanth for years, stealing away young girls from their island homes. Days later, the girls are in the dark and dank underbelly of the vessel when strange happenings begin to spook the sailors, and, deciding that the group of girls are bringing bad luck, the pirates toss the Tribe members overboard, legs bound, mouths gagged, to their fate at the bottom of the sea, with no chance for survival. Or, so it seems.