It was many years ago that humans came and settled the world of
Newholme. In these early days, the first wave of pioneers struggled to
make a home on the harsh, alien planet. As others from Earth came, the
humans learned to bend Newholme to their will, to set down roots and
raise up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess. But now
strange things are happening. The very ground is shaking with volcanic
eruptions, and all of Newholme is in peril.
And so it is that the great Great Questioner, official arbiter of the Council of Worlds,
decides to pay a visit to the isolated planet to find out what is
causing the increasingly violent disturbances. For rumors have long
swirled throughout the Council about what really happened to the first
settlers from Earth all those years ago - whispers about a terrible secret that lies buried deep within Newholme's past.
It is on
Newholme that the Questioner will meet Mouche, a beautiful youth of
uncommon cleverness and spirit. It will fall to Mouche to discover and
embrace that which makes him unique among humans. For Newholme's past is not dead, not completely. And the survival of an entire world depends
upon Mouche appeasing something dark and terrible that's coiled
within... and in his total surrender to the mysterious, ecstatic revelry that results when the six moons join.
