Thrown together randomly to undertake their ‘walk back’ as custom dictates Idris, Tedrin and Lorcan find themselves in an unknown and hostile environment that is littered with ferocious beasts and predators lying in wait for them. The trio have to learn quickly to rely on each other in order to survive and by so doing learn even more about themselves.

Among their most formidable and hostile encounters are the 2 metre tall merciless blood sucking mosquito-like ‘bleeders’ and the ferocious swamp dwellers who imprison captives in cages anchored in stagnant lakes infested with flesh eating creatures. Will they all return to their city in triumph or will they succumb to one of the many dangers that have befallen so many before them?