For Kale life has been one bad thing, then a worse thing, then something even worse ever since his parents died and he was sent to the orphanage. So when a Corsair from Ikrith skyhold comes to the orphanage and offers to take him to the sky, he's suspicious of a trap.
The idea of a place where he'll always have enough to eat, where people will treat him like a brother and he'll have a chance to become a crew member on an airship, seems too good to be true. But, as the Corsair says, there's no place worse than the orphanage, so what does he have to lose?
When Kale chooses to take a gamble and go with the Corsair, he little realizes he's entering a world of danger as well as discovery. The Corsairs may rule the ground as well as the sky, but there are some who chafe under that rule. He will have to learn who he can trust, and quickly.
Because few who go to the sky return to the ground.
