Story so far*: Culleen Callawe’en has travelled far in her quest for personal magic. From the shore of the northern ocean to a cliff-top above the great easterlies’ sea. Born humanish among a people all possessing magic, Culleen felt the outsider. She grew from a feral child to a young woman of the forest, who understood the earthy magic of nature. Feeling her difference even more keenly then, she vowed to find something of magic for or within herself. The search led her on strange adventures with her travelling companions – Vesta, a wolf-dog, and Kuth, a raven sent from the north during her journey.

A cliff-top attack by a wraith-woman left Vesta with a minor graze wound, and Culleen with a spark of magic. Holding the mis-shot arrow, she is able to converse with Kuth for the first time. Unintelligible clacks became words. The wraith-woman disappeared, but Culleen knows she must seek her out. On Kuth’s advice, she begins the arduous task of creating a new base camp among the copse of yews where the attack took place. And so . .