This is a pre-prequel to the historical literature series Legends of Ḷainjin. Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Ḷainjin must now travel to Naṃdik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home to Wōtto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren wind-swept island in the northern part of the island chain?