Once the Valghian admiral receives Atland's message that they will not surrender, he decides to leave Ririha outside to freeze to death. Luckily, Kaina and Yaona come to her rescue, but now they must figure out a way to escape and return to Atland.
A world blanketed in an endless and ever-growing ocean of snow. The people eke out a living, either huddled around the roots of enormous trees dotting the surface, or high in the canopy, which spreads over the planet's atmosphere.
A chance meeting between Kaina, a youth from the canopy, and Liliha, a young woman from the surface, sets off a chain of events that will change the fate of the world.