Lowly midwife apprentice orange-hair Snail, one eye blue, one green, and snobby hostage Seelie Prince Aspen are on the run from Unseelie and Seelie rulers calling down death. Is old drow Jack Daw a friend or foe? Will three questions from Sticksman be the promised favor Aspen cannot keep? Monsters pursue through Unseelie Castle, Unseelie Lands, Shifting Lands.