Empathy can be an error.

Forgiveness can be fatal.

These two lessons have burned deep within her bones for as long as Sheila can remember.

Even without the weight of family or friends, she has never known true freedom.

Undistracted by both poverty and terminal illness, she races towards a finish line she will never reach.

For her path continues beyond her original destination and she finds herself in a strange new world divided by elemental, shapeshifting, and other powers.

Wherein the people of Nippo call her by a different name and act like they know her.

Now burdened by a past that belongs to a stranger, Sheila is trapped once again by a power struggle that leaves her with questions instead of answers.

Why should she pay for a crime she didn't commit?

And why should she fight for a cause she doesn't stand for?

When tolerance usually creates more trouble

And kindness has already killed her once before.