After the Asurlette dispatches smart electrons to the wars of mainland Europe in 1761, they veer off course and are ultimately distributed across Malabar Moor, killing many people.
Nearly three centuries later, Onyx Cattarini is the metamorphic girl who rebels against her maker by utilising a strange diode that is linked to the deaths, to help save her friend, Bronwyn, who has been physically altered in an act of deception.
Is Ped-Carreg's spiritual officer, General Llanfair, willing to risk the future of the pre-physical plane of Asurletia by altering light creation to help a deluded professor searching for his dead wife? Or will their dangerous escapades finally consume all of their souls?