"What do you make of those journals?" she asked. "Whoever wrote them was quite the person." "That person..." She scowled. "Should have burned those journals the moment you got here." He believed her to be an Ancient, the only feature he questioned were her eyes. Ancients had unnatural colored eyes, ranging from red to an icy blue. Elana's were brown. Because of that she just looked like a normal human. But she was right, why would a human possess all those journals? Why did she live in the middle of nowhere with an owl, just like how the Ancients had their owl guardians. He took another step. "Ancient." He breathed. *** Calvin Finch, a commoner-born Champion of the Kingdom of Vega, faces a new challenge as he finds himself in the heart of the Whispering Woods, the forests where any man would be lost and forgotten. The woman who finds him, an outcast, makes a risk, bringing this strange man into her home and cares for him. Her secrets started slipping through, her fake facade fading. But once all is put out onto the table, she makes a choice. The shadows of her past are emerging once again.