Ecout Kanovos grew up poor and took the first real opportunity he found: a position in the Master Order Trained Hire, the authoritative enforcement body of the city of Enonoia. The reality of the job did not match his expectations of what justice looks like. Caught in sudden abductions and escalating civil unrest, Ecout breaks open a dubious state prison and frees a young man named Otis—someone with a beastly appearance and a claimed ability to grant any wish. Whether that power can repair Ecout's unraveling situation, or whether Otis is simply another complication in a city that has too many already, is what the story works toward.