Altrea is offered as a slave at the singing stones market. This is where Syeel intervenes. The Chron-Bastion sends him to her dream world to stabilize her mind. There he takes her to the flying cities. She soon realizes for herself that the still-functioning social order there is also in danger of disintegrating.

As a young boy Jens Fitscher was an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy books. He loved the popular paperbacks of the 70s and 80s of the last centuries. He showed a strong interest in the protagonists with extraordinary abilities. His stories are always about strong personalities who, through unusual circumstances, outgrow themselves and are rewarded with supernatural abilities.