"This is something that happens once a millennium. Not even that often." Mother's face was telling it all. Owata had no choices. The village of Aca is driven to bewilderment when a farmer's daughter Owata is chosen to marry an unexpected person. Has the soothsayer who arranged the marriage lost her mind or is it all about something more significant? Is Owata willing to act as a pawn of those in power? Chaart Acrat - a small island, closed community, increasing inequality. How many dissidents does it take to devastate the long-standing way of life? Each of the four human breeds have their own special work in the village communes. The serving Chends, farming Fiaans, religious leaders, Leoncegs, and on the top the Tshers ruling them all. Order and discipline are kept up by shia-ags, saber-clawed lizards commanded by the Tshers. But is it possible to train an ancient species so well it could do as a completely submissive servant? What are the other yet unknown creatures of the island like? Are the four human breeds already too diverged to pull their strength together when threatened by something external?