Lan once had a different name. But after the invasion of the Elantian colonisers, who killed her mother and banned her people's magic, she took on a new identity and began living a double life: by day, she scours the city slums in search of artefacts from the past, and by night, she works as a singer in a teahouse. The only thing left of the girl's former life is a mysterious mark on her hand that no one but Lan herself can see. Until Zhen appears a practitioner from...
