Run, run, run as fast as you could… Vhael and her son Jaes have managed to elude Aem’Shihaev for as long as they have, but now that the Crows have circled the two, running has run out. The Deep has always been inescapable; however, the realization of that fact is slow in the dark, so what will the five find as that darkness closes its cold and jagged grasp upon them? And what fate awaits Vhael and Jaes now that escape is gone?