"Dim-Glow " That's what the bullies always called Toivo Rallence, the one boy in the entire shining Topaz Realm who can't control Light. His uncle keeps telling him that he has full-bright potential, if he can only figure out how to show it. He sees things so differently than everyone else. He can see hidden things, and sometimes dark things that are looking back at him. Will Toivo survive growing up disabled in the Realm of Light? Will he Shine or Shatter? Only Fate can say....