What use is expansion into a limitless expanse?What use is integrity to a species fuelled upon indulgence and gorge?What is the point in building, in striving, what is the point in continuing on when true darkness ever watches, ever waits?Something is happening out there, far out there, and it is not the original enslaver Humanity expelled from the birth-world those millennia before. Conflicts and rivalries bicker on through cities and colonies of the Deitine's Human Empire, but all pale in the light of what murmurs out there.So few know to even look.A Guardian Enchant, a transcendent being of supernatural ability, virtual royalty, has arrived within the fiercely independent corporate haven of Mumbai. She has come incognito and charged through the naivety of youth to learn more on those murmurs. She and her tiny elite escort are of the ultimate genetic stock Humanity has conceived, but within this whore-eat-whore arena of free-trade massacre, they find themselves simply another trophy to be claimed.Coming to her aid stands a lone Imperial Marshal, ever defiant of the city's salacious indulgence. With him stands his First Deputy, ever defiant herself of her species' pleasure-toy cliche. Gangs battle, the bounty raises, the hunt amplifies and the blood flows, but all the while that Darkness ever watches, ever looms... out there.