Bernard Durand was a soldier - and a sinner, of course. But everyone has a line they're not prepared to cross. One day Bernard was pushed in the back - and pushed beyond his personal line. Ten years have passed since then, and all that time he has continued to seek redemption in the detachment of a church order that protects people from monsters. But what do you do when the world has burned, the squad is dead, but the people you need to protect remain? And only an old two-handed sword and the single surviving companion - a strange voiceless elven ranger... can help you.