In this world, mage-experimenters have gone too far: machines brought to life by magic killed their creators, and now—reproducing on their own—they move in all directions, sowing death among living beings.
In this world, a boy hides in plain sight—one even the city’s rulers fear.
Our modern-day heroine is pulled into the suburbs of a besieged city and observed for some time. But instead of looking for the dangerous boy, the girl begins gathering homeless children in the suburbs. And soon, a small but very strange children’s nursery appears in a village magically protected from the killer machines.