Halley's Comet has come and gone, school's out for the summer, and Nick still isn't comfortable with the arrangement of The Pen & the Sword. Mina on the other hand, is becoming even more confident - maybe even reckless. But with everything Nick can do, everything he can see, he still can't figure out the mind of a teenage girl - let alone the mind of a super powered teenage girl. At odds over how to deal with the events of the past spring and what the future will bring, Nick and Mina find their relationship and their destiny on rocky ground. Nick turns to his friends for distraction and advice and the hope of just living as a normal teenager a little bit longer. Mina turns to the sword wanting to know just how different she is.