Book excerpt: As son of a high archiving guard who is valued highly in his small kingdom, Rain is met with high expectations regarding his responsibilities. When he messes up greatly by not preventing the kidnapping of the royalty's children and letting a vampire get too close to the town, he is sent on a redemption mission to retrieve the children and kill the vampire who is accompanying him. But they quickly develop a deeper understanding for the other as Rain soon discovers that vampires and also dragons may not be as maliciously evil as they have been thought to be. Does anything that seems frightening at first need to be killed without question?