"What you don't change, you also choose."It has been over one hundred years since the world fell from the Age of Greatness, but the citizens of the new Empire still remember all too clearly the terror their ancestors faced from the invasion of the Immutavi. Rin has grown up safe and protected in the Dale, but the unwelcome arrival of three new guests throws everything she thought she knew into question. With her life shrouded in deception and half-truths, she must now find a way to reconcile what she has always believed to be true with the new reality unfolding around her. No longer able to outrun her past, Rin is left wondering... what will be the price for taking on an empire?