When the Others demanded to know the whereabouts of all the cassandra sangue in Thaisia, all they wanted was to keep watch over the girls whose blood could be used as a weapon against them. They hadn\"t realized that exposing \\\"benevolent ownership\\\" as legalized exploitation would have terrible consequences for these strange, fragile girls....

Every attack begins with the murder of Crows, the watchers and gossips among the terra indigene, the Others who poke around in the things humans discard...and who might discover secrets some humans don\"t want revealed....