Having offered sanctuary to the soul of the man who stole her brother’s body system, Vree minds north to Shkoder with two kigh battling to co-exist within a body. Although the chances aren’t within their favour, there’s a chance, a small chance, the Bards will get Gyhard a body of his very own without other people having to perish. But Vree was an assassin trained to destroy on command, Gyhard has selected to kill again and again on a quest for immortality, as well as the Bards aren’t particular which ones is the more about No Quarter dangerous. No one, from the guard around the Citadel gate to the King himself, wants them anywhere near the solitary Healer who are able to Sing the Fifth Kigh.

No-one except Magda, the Healer, whose traditions has taught her that stuff are not generally because they seem.

In the end, Bardic suspicion becomes the least of Vree’s complications. The useless walk in the mountains of Shkoder, kigh limited in rotting corpses, and Gyhard’s past came back to haunt them. Hunted from the Bards as well as the Healer’s family, Vree, Gyhard and Magda head for the mountains to Sing Gyhard’s past to rest. To make matter’s even worse, Vree’s brother offers however to forgive her for conserving Gyhard’s lifestyle and is set to create Gyhard – and for that reason Vree – back to the Empire to spend the purchase price for treason.