They call me Takemi, and I am a mercenary. I survived a near-death battlefield head injury just to get thrown right back into the meatgrinder. My friends and I survived brigands, beasts, scheming nobles, a rigged tribunal, and oh, more beasts! But it wasn't all bad! My bond with ether helped put part of my fractured mind back together. What did I see? Glimpses of a life lost. A woman I'd failed. But also...a rift forming...