Madeleine would like to be nice to other people - probably. It's rather dependent on them not wanting to burn her at the stake. However, a life of running from pitchfork and flaming torch-wielding hordes has merely increased her skills of lying, brawling and running like hell. Marked out by fate to be a man of unique destiny, Cadwallader is a baron on a secret mission to talk to gods and find the truth about reality - unaware that gods and truth are mutually exclusive. The gods don't know what Madeleine is. Neither does she: she's put a lot of effort into forgetting. The gods decide to meddle and make the two meet - but gods and wisdom are also mutually exclusive. Part III of the Rude Awakening series Proceed without caution