"Every ship that runs the skies has two things. A bell and a chronicler. The bell's for when you crash and burn, so people know where to find you. The chronicler's so people know what happened."
  When the Cockatrice arrives in Cliff's Edge, bell ringing and not a single sheet of observations aboard, it's clear something's wrong. But the crew's ramblings about what they found are incoherent at best, and nobody in the town can write well enough... except for Io, who has their own past to keep at bay. What better way to get away from it all than sail with a ship in search of something that doesn't exist?
  But you can't run from the past forever, and the Cockatrice's recent incident has brought unwanted attention upon the crew. With adversaries from closing in from all directions, will the crew find the fabled skydust of the Northern peaks? Or will something else find them first?