A small boy is found naked and unconscious amid the ruins of a high school cafeteria. A smartly dressed woman with an unexplained bruise on her shoulder has organized a convocation of secret societies to discuss the future of the world. Someone has stolen a millennia-old arrow said to be able to unmake creation. A bear in loose in the woods. And me, I'm just driving around in a pickup truck with a red panda, trying to find the kid who holds to key to the whole frammis. "People will turn into animals, and here come ancient secrets and rivers of blood."