No feast. Just famine... The Curare are a damaged earth's sole hope of healing. Enslaved for the same rare elemental powers that will eventually kill them, they are forced to leave everything they love behind to do the impossible. When soldiers descend on South Farm, Vea Algana, a Curare unlike any other, is flushed out of hiding. She flees her home with Leo, a City Slicker who abandoned the City for the farms under mysterious circumstances and wants nothing more than to fight back. Out in the desiccated fields of No Man's Land, Vea must make a choice: go back into hiding once more or trust in Leo's plan and face her enemy.