Fresh off her escape from the Cumaea, Maika Half-Wolf still carries Zinn, the ancient entity bound inside her, and still doesn't fully understand what either of them is capable of. With human and Arcanic factions circling for advantage and the anti-Arcanic Cumaea hunting anyone like her, Maika, the fox-girl Kippa, and their small circle of allies take refuge in Tear Shed, a rough harbor town controlled by pirates and thin on mercy.
There, entangled with the scheming Dusk Court and its formidable ruler Tuya, Maika is forced to do something harder than fighting: trust people. Old wounds from her mother's past surface, secrets about the Known World's deeper history start to surface, and Maika has to decide how much of herself she's willing to risk to keep the people she loves alive.
Collecting issues #13–18, this volume of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Eisner and Hugo Award-winning series pushes further into the political map of its 1920s-inspired, matriarchal world, while keeping its focus tight on Maika's fraying grip on her own humanity.