Agredios the knight and Cetia the witch have made an uneasy alliance to revitalize the lands where they both live. But the sudden influx of refugees from the fire-ravaged village of Achines presents a more immediate problem--how to keep everyone fed. So Ag decides to hunt one of the massive bovine monstrosities known as tauroth.only to find that there is worse trouble on the way when their band of survivors attracts the attention of the crusaders who put Achines to the torch.