When the wormhole's endpoint suddenly shifts, the event throws everyone's plans into disarray. Both the Bshaak operation and the human resistance are disrupted. The Bshaak boss, Kalr, manipulates matters to her own benefit, and gains status and power on the home world. With her new-found influence, she reestablishes the meat operation with the full support of the Bshaak authorities. The humans are tightly controlled and farmed for their meat.

Nyala and Brön join other renegade humans at a hidden location where they plan and prepare for war against the Bshaak. They seek to fulfill the Prophecy, a Tuk legend that foretells the descendants of Vlagga of the Tuk and Jan of Greenvale are destined to win back the human world from the occupiers.

But the powerful Adept Arun and his son Tell, who is more powerful still, have other plans for the despised Ordinary. Can the resistance overcome both the Magical ones and the Bshaak?