He’s sent to the Cerracs, a mountainous region placed beyond the latest conquered nation of Vorroni. There, the Borol forces are working to subdue the remaining indigenous villages. Inexperienced and earnest, Dimos plans to write about Dolan Wilder, one of the nation’s war heroes leading this fight. But when his first story sticks closer to the truth than the commander’s liking, Dimos is sent to trail a scouting group – that soon gets attacked by a group of regional fighters. Dimos is captured by the Free Company of the Mountain Heather and discovers something that he never wrote in the Borol headlines: that these isolated villages weren’t just settlements, but made up the region of Hron, which is, much to his surprise, a country of anarchists.