Just after dawn, a slave ship from Athens takes over in a remote village, rounding up the women and children and loading them on their ship.
What fate doomed this village whose men were taken as slaves just six years earlier From the hidden birthing hut, Panacea, daughter of the god of healing, watches, raging, helpless to intervene.
Studying the raiders, she recognizes the leader, the rogue prince Aphoron, whose service to Poseidon has already wreaked havoc across the land (as told in Moon .