Hele’ne finds herself living with a beast on a planet that is not her world. One day, she spies a migrant delegation on the same shore where the beast discovered her three hundred years earlier, broken and devoid of memory. One of the migrants, an evenblood teen, triggers echoes of her past. She escapes the beast and blindly follows the boy. But the beast gives chase… Will Hele’ne break free from her chains, or will the beast’s shadow consume her once more?