Returning home from a mission in Toscanna, the heron's find a teenage girl drifting at sea on a slab of wood. She has no clue who she is other than her name, or where she came from, except that she can fight and she can't go home. When strange ships follow the heron and her crew are captured on a supply restocking mission, what plan will Hal come up with to escape? Will the girl they found be able to help them survive when Scandia and Araluen are threatened?