When the gates first opened on Latolan some eight hundred years ago, the only thing the first explorers found were the drunken ruins of a civilization at least a thousand years dead. Since then, they’ve founded a city that has become the central hub of all the worlds, a place where peoples of all kinds merge and mingle in cohabitation. Two men meet on a train going nowhere in particular. From different species and different worlds, yet some things transcend even those.