"It wasn't like a dream. It was like suffocating. Drowning in a watery abyss, except the tides did not soothe the agonising burning in her core. She could still feel pieces of her broken and alight, fragmented beyond repair. Was death supposed to be so painful? How was she not in Erohk, the afterlife? She died a warrior's death. Was that not enough?" Would you accept a second chance at life even if it could end just as tragically? After suffering an agonising death, Karliah, the last Astral Dragon, is given that very chance. Body and soul mended, Karliah is returned to a version of her world, Astiel, long before its destruction. On the surface, Astiel is exactly how she remembers glittering cities and sprawling Fae woodland, but strangers now stand beside her. The once dead walk amongst the living, beloved friends now spurn her and hated enemies now stare at her with a lustful gaze. As the world hurtles towards its second destruction, how will Karliah change fate when she can no longer tell friend from foe?