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"Do you know what I am?" she asked. "We don't care what you are," they told her.

The first world is gone. This is the second world.

In a broken future devoid of medicine, is the ability to heal really a gift ... or a terrible curse?

Emil is a Pure One, born scarred and with the ability to save life through touch. Stone is the grim and determined drifter who rescues her from bounty hunters and offers her protection. She agrees to travel with him, and his companion Tomas, across the blistered and unforgiving continent of Gallen, a landscape filled with scavengers and bandit gangs.

But in the wasteland of the second world everything has a price and Emil begins to wonder if she has been rescued ... or captured?