Lanta is ten when the guards of Dura come to take her from her family.

She wouldn’t have minded very much if it weren’t for the actual fact she was going like a sacrifice.

Something lives in the Xion Stump with the red X on its door.

Everyone says it’s a monster, but no one’s ever seen it.

Today, for Lanta, the mystery will end up being unraveled.

For the very first time in her life, she’d rather not know.