"Change it. The thought rolled over in Skag's mind -- "change it." The world unfolded beyond that gray wall. He thought then of Father Daugth sitting like a pending nightmare upon the stone dais. It made his heart weaken, but his eyes still glittered." The bogfoke are the remnant of a diminutive, diminishing, ancient race of creatures who have lived secretively for centuries in a vast cemetery. When a gnawing desire for purpose awakens in the heart of one of the bogfoke, he sets in motion a series of events that will lead the bogfoke from the despair of their furtive existence and into a world that is more dangerous and wondrous than they could ever have imagined. The bogfoke come to find themselves unwillingly entangled in an primordial and elemental struggle that has engulfed the fate of both humankind and the ancestors of the bogfoke. In their endeavors, the bogfoke come to find who they are, who they were meant to be, and that they are not alone.