After years apart, two friends meet again. When they stumble upon a wandering dragon unfamiliar with the Cadore Range and its society, guiding it through their world produces questions they never asked.

The answers challenge their past choices.

Will they choose honesty or keep hiding behind honor and self-sacrifice?

Liesel Bekiner: secure in her wandering lifestyle.

Aiden Stark: untroubled by demanding friendships and comfortable being alone.

Their meeting sets them on a path neither imagined possible. Will habit and mistaken self-sacrifice split them apart again.

Or will the dragon they meet force them to face the lies that convinced them their dreams were impossible?

The Cadore Range is home to eight human kingdoms. They are each unique, having different ruling styles, and separated along the range. Some have long histories of interactions while others maintain their isolation.

Solstice dragons live in the mountains of the range. They are intelligent and maintain peace with the humans due to a long-standing agreement known as The Bargain to the dragons and The Don't Eat Humans Clause to the human populations.