Cahan was never supposed to be an adventurer. Born an orphan in the Kingdom of Dragulom, he received a gift at age five that set him apart from every other child — not a blade, not a flame, not a spirit's power, but an Eye that could see the truth in all things. While his peers grew into warriors and mages, Cahan grew into something quieter and stranger: a young man who could read the world with perfect clarity but could not touch it the way others could. Then the world stopped being readable. Pulled through a Gate into a vast and impossible land where the rules of Dragulom mean nothing, where monsters the kingdom has no name for roam freely, and where even the air carries a power that changes everything it touches, Cahan must survive on the only thing he has ever truly possessed — the ability to look deeper than anyone else, and refuse to stop looking until he finds the truth. But the Gate is not empty. Something ancient lives at its heart. And someone sent him here on purpose. A story about an orphan who learned to see everything — and must now learn what to do with what he finds.