Sachi Takahashi, not yet nineteen seasons old, is in deep trouble. She’s just killed the only son of the lord of corrupt Clan Ishikawa, a man who will spend weeks torturing her to death. Now she must flee her homeland. But Clan Ishikawa reaches throughout the Empire and into other, nearby nations.

So she must seek a ship on which she can hide until it reaches her goal, the nearly mythical Kingdom of Montagar, on the other side of the world. A place beyond even the reach of her clan lord’s thugs and murderers.

She had to find a tall ship.