What does it mean to be alive? Is moving and thinking enough? Or is something else necessary? Is home where you're born, where you live, or where you most want to be? What sacrifices are acceptable to ensure your own survival, and the survival of those you care about? If you take their freedom to keep them alive, did they survive at all? This world was never a quiet one. It was always full of magic and strangeness. But something a little stranger than usual touched it the day the Scarecrows started coming to life. Briar was one of these Scarecrows, brought suddenly into existence with no past and no knowledge of the world, wandering simply because there was nothing else for him to do. The people he meets along the way (Bean, reserved and wise and quietly angry at the world. Kuja, quick and clever who survives above all else. Tanneken Tule, fearsome alpha of an unstoppable horde) will shape who is and who he becomes and ultimately, his decision, which will change him and his world forever.