On a distant island, a doomsday cult has opened a portal for an Old God. Wolfe, a member of a family bred to serve the Brotherhood, is there to defend the experiment. Raven, an operative for a secretive Agency that handles supernatural threats, is there to stop it. Neither of them knows just how badly trying to tame ancient magic with modern science can go. -- This novella serves as a prologue to the upcoming Aetherium Cycle of Epic Urban Fantasy novels, and includes the first scene of the first book, BEACON.