A jobless jester and a misguided magpie venture into a land where technology is booming- but trouble is brewing. Thanks to a unique natural wonder that powers its advanced technology, the Whellen Country is far more prosperous than the rest of the Kingdom. But no thanks to a three-generations-old misunderstanding with the Crown, this Utopian land stands poised between survival and destruction.
Enter Malfred Murd, the disgraced Royal Fool. He's got a talking magpie on one shoulder, a great big chip on the other, and talent galore- including a talent for rubbing people exactly the wrong way.
Life on the street is no fool's paradise, and Fred isn't above trying a little con-artistry to help him get by... but it all goes rudely, rapidly wrong when the sweet old lady he tries to trick turns out to be Dame Elsebet de Whellen herself-armed, deadly, and crazy enough to drag Fred along with her on the desperate rescue mission that will decide the future of her people.