A simple task: a theft steal an object for a lord. Ro believed it an easy thing to accomplish except when the object in question begins to speak to its mind, and seeing a grotesque creature flitting at the edge of his field of vision does he start to suspect that there was something much more to it. Armed with his wits and with his spectral ally at his side, he tries to navigate the perils of a decaying world and dreams that threaten to tear him apart.
