Once upon a time, there was only darkness. A journey began, that would stitch all the worlds together with light. Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started the apocalypse. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.įrom the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.Īt the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter? Plot Summary

A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz.something is happening. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.īut there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.Īnd, perhaps, for themselves. When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance.

Dreams of gods