Aelric Prence has wandered the world for a long time, patiently watching the world change before him. Decades slipping by as he looks for his Apprentice. His teacher had long ago told him he was waiting on a very special child. He's restless, getting impatient, and tired of waiting. Aelric is convinced he is looking for a male, aged 10, like him his brothers had been when their teachers found them... he couldn't have been more wrong. Elisapeth Lawrence has always been a loner. As an infant she was abandoned to a church, no clues left as to her identity, except a pendant necklace. A beautiful Emerald the size of a quarter and shaped like a tear drop, surrounded on either side with four small rubies. She has been searching for clues to her identity her entire life, always coming up empty handed. Going to a job interview she has no idea that she is about to find all the answers she has spent her life searching for. Or the danger she is about to face just for being born.