The Children are restless. The latest events and attacks have set everyone's nerves on edge – and a miscalculated step may be enough to shatter the fragile truce between the tribes.
The Cigarettes captured Dancer, a Vampire girl, but events turned out in a way that Seraphim, Alpha of the Cigarettes, found himself on Vampire territory, dragged onward by his own conscience. Mina and Sven, leaders of the Vampires, lost no time in capturing the young Cigarette; brought back to her tribe at Seraphim's own orders, Dancer defied Mina's authority and was stripped of her Hunter rank, and so both Vampire and Cigarette were thrown into the Gargoyle Tower's pits.
Meanwhile, a rescue party from the Cigarettes rises to the occasion, and they set on a suicidal attack on the Vampires' Tower to get their leader back.
Focused on their waging war, the two enemy tribes fail to notice a small mouse scurrying by their feet; crafty and deceiving, the Wharf Rats plan on capturing Vox, the Cigarettes' nurse, all the while placing the blame on the Vampires.
…But even the smallest mouse might not see the new life blooming on the feral Wildcats.
Step on as you may, you are bound to disturb a viper's nest. The true question is – which of them is deadlier?
"And Shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command. So we shall flow a river forth unto thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."