The Old Civilizations—The Fallen Ones—destroyed the earth with industry, technology, and innovation. When they kept on, even as the world around them deteriorated, they were taken out by Terra Firmans and Aquailans, land- and water-beings with the desire to live simple, healthy lives. But what Terra Firmans and Aquailans did not expect to encounter while ridding of The Fallen were powers beyond their respective abilities to control. So a Terra Firman secured the feared powers and hid them—unfortunately recording his exploits in a journal, a journal someone is now determined to find...
Fourteen-year-old Terra Firman, Oliver Jestcap, is on the brink of manhood and independence. But his fantasies of freedom are quickly forgotten as encounters with the new residents in Quayley escalate from interrogations to imprisonments to the kidnapping of the Governor. Soon Oliver finds himself sacrificing his life for the journal and powers beyond his imagination.