For generations sylphs have lived isolated on the island of Shinalea forgotten by the world. But they too have forgotten their past. Until it rears its head and changes the very foundations of their world...Ravenna has grown up isolated and ostracised amongst the sylphs for her small wing size and her unusual colouring. She lives with the Intellecti a collection of sylphs dedicated to learning to facts to history to thought. But she feels most free when she runs through the trees of her beloved