Pain, Fear & A Dying World The time has come for the Makkarios team to enter Ginhana, Jinx's home world, to begin their world study assignment. They have been warned: if the current course of events goes unchanged, Ginhana will becom a dying world. Before the team members set foot through the Ginhana door, however, matters have already gone dangerously out of control. Morrigan is on the hunt, seeking revenge on Rai and Jinx, and she has a secure foothold in Ginhana with the Alchemian Temple. Even with the Troupe's backing, the team faces Deep Arts warfare on a level usually seen only by veteran Center personnel. THey must rely on Tora, the younger sister who has already murderously attacked Damek and Calypso with her Deep Arts skills, for their defense against Morrigan and the Alchemian Temple practitioners. Truman must brace himself for trouble: he has learned that Ginhana is also his home world, where he was abandoned as an infant, and he has learned the identity of his birth father. Robbin Darrow serves as a warris guard to Lady Virginia of the elite Latymer family of Matat. Whatever Truman's opinion of Darrow, his obvious resemblance to the warris will throw Truman into Matat's tangled political struggles on the side of the Latymer family, whose wealth many envy and whose domain many other elite families seek to overthrow at every opportunity. But for Jinx, this assignment will prove the most costly. Not only must she face her own past as an outcaste, but she has been given the task of protecting her mentor Rai from Morrigan without his knowledge. Last time, Jinx sacrificed her own life to save Rai. This time, in order to fulfill the terms of her assignment, she will be called to risk something infinitely precious to her: Rai himself.