Ashrea das Cimacharei is a 12-year-old girl who spent three years at a convent practising medicine, four studying it; of all the surgeons that take their craft to the semi-corpses lining Mendicant's Alley, she is unique in that she happens to be the only one still trying. Perei qu'n'av dasnamr is a 17-year-old boy who earns his living taking things from people who do not deserve them so as to give them to people who deserve them less; of all the thieves who take their chances all the way to Highpoint Boulevard, he is unique in that he happens to be the only one still alive. They meet, bad things happen, and a lot of people die. It's not very fun.