When a pilot with no name breaks through a rift to a dying world,he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things in the way of a horrific army of monsters that is marching to burn down the mystical world tree and kill its keeper as the final symbol of their grim victory. What happens when an emotionless killer is transported to another place,when a man who was trained to hunt in the skies above barren ash-lands now becomes the last protector of the perfect garden below instead? What happens when a soldier with as much blood on his hands as engine grease must find a way to live together with a peaceful incarnation of nature itself—a dryad—in order to save the last sparks of life on her fading world from a series of invasions that never seem to end?