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Zelia is a priestess with sky-blue skin and strange tempers. Half-human and half-air elemental, she lives uneasily in the College of Healers. Perceived as an outsider and declared renegade, nevertheless, she his chosen for a dangerous mission. Ares is an opportunist and an adventurer. Neither elf nor human, he is another outsider welcomed by no one -- mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet, and together they discover they possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the evil that threatens the land, for Queb, long thought dead, has returned....