Elinorra Motz thought she was leading a rescue mission down the Principal River to save 200 of her fellow exiles. Instead, she ran into a wrecked encampment where her former companions had been slaughtered by a vicious pack of savage and disturbingly intelligent reptiles. And then, after dealing with that, a warship appeared and attacked her flotilla. War began between tiny Altura and an empire of 90,000 people that was a thousand years old and ruled the Bak Sea. But the Alturans had some news for the Bak - explosive news.
