sentences:  In his backstory, it is revealed that before the start of the series, his mother, left, causing his novelist father, , to burn wing marks on Ian's back to prevent him from doing the same., Ian's abused childhood friend and secret "crush", later returns to the city where he lives after being separated for years.Stumbling upon the scene of a murder and seeing a man retrieve a cube from the victim's body, Ian follows him back to an antique shop, where the man, actually a Gancanagh named , gives him Tokage's fairy cube—a cube belonging to a fairy that can allow the fairy to take over the human who has it.