Abducted at 3. Trained with much older juveniles to become soldiers in the colony army. Bonds and friendships are formed with dreams of becoming emperor knights. Raptor and Zerah, the intelligent, strong and curious pair become fast friends in the colony. Suddenly dreams of becoming emperor knights is dashed as one's curiosity and the other's personal mission takes them outside the empire and makes them into fugitives, moving them from a world they have known all their lives into an unknown one where they are faced with loss, betrayal, love and fear. Their encounter with the Avengers of blood will change both their lives forever.