Part One is now over. Cy and friends have completed their training and have a fairly good grasp of their abilities. They have been a little surprised with the emergency mobilisation and Cy at least is a little uncertain about whether what he has learnt is all true. There have been some hints that all is not as it appears, and questions about their taskings have been avoided or answered only superficially.

As we rejoin the story, Cy's fist has just arrived at the harbour on the mainland…