Nagaro Chronicle 2: The captured Mahuk war galley floats enticingly in Pakoa harbor, and Nagaro has a beautiful and deadly Mahuk sword under his bed, but neither seems likely to do him any good. He is famous from one end of the island to the other for leading the slaves' escape, but unanswered questions about the past he must conceal torment him. How did he escape the palace and the will-enslaving drug heskial? When Taru hatches a plot to find out, things go from bad to worse.