The Sav'ine are dying. The Hives are crumbling from within, and the leaders are grasping for a solution. Ale'man is part of a desperate move. He hunts his own kind. Trained to be an unemotional ghost, he must seek out and assassinate those Stricken with a disease that is slowly infesting every Sav'ine. Each kill takes a part of himself, and his sanity. One step away from his own crash into the darkness, a cure is promised. Hidden within the genetic code of a single child. Can Ale'man find the remaining family member to complete the sequence and survive? Or will the Sav'ine disappear from the universe?