Inkie feels commonly comfortable in his ordinary life-until that awful, curious thought. "Oh fright." Now his mind struggles to not-think the things he is thinking: What is beyond the forbidden fence that surrounds my home town? Can he dare to search for the answer? It would be a bogglingly scary task, not the type of thing a healthy-minded Lomen would be interested in, or good at. Still.... Inkie's journey takes him into the frightful unknown. His quest is to find the true and original meanings of five names. Along the way, he overcomes many weaknesses; sometimes the cost is great and fearful. At the end of his quest, he meets the one called Enslaver. But, is this the being's true name, or is Enslaver one of the changed names? Inkie's journey is our journey