I wish I could meet other humans. That is the secretwish of Ria Frontier, who grew up as the sole human amid a veritable melting potof other fantastical races on a small island.As she prepares to celebrate theturn of the thousand-year cycle, that wish is granted‚ in the form of awar party of humans that arrives on a flying ship to ransack her home and hurther friends and adoptive family in search of Pandora's Box.Pushed too far bythe cruelty of her race, Ria somehow manages to unseal the terrible power ofwhat the humans have been looking for, unleashing a tragedy that will change herlife forever...