What if your mind could be copied without you knowing?...and then what if you found out?

'So,' Peter began, 'magic is real... and you think I could do it. Why?'Peter Rutherford had just wanted to go for a walk and get to sleep.Instead, he found himself dragged into a war which had been raging for millennia, in which all he could hope to do was maintain the status quo. Until, that is, he conceived of a way to end the war, once and for all.But there is always a price to pay. Especially when the innocent are involved.

“I just wanted to experience it for myself.”Michael Crease is just a guy who fell through a hedge one night, when he was drunk.A hedge, on the other side of which was a house which appeared to have been unoccupied for decades.But it wasn’t. And that wasn’t his last fall.

He paused. ‘I think it says something like “come and see those who will tell all at the bottom of the world”.’The constellation Maaren has vanished from the sky. Twelve great birds, the fabled Flight of Maar, are devouring the world. The only way to stop them is in the Forbidden City of the Yester.The journey is long and fraught with perils, with different countries being as completely different worlds.The Flight of Maar is their constant companion.