Many years after a devastating war, Earth is now being watched by a group of beings known as The Third, named for the third red eye on their forehead that can access various computer systems. Navigating this barren, apocalyptic landscape is Honoka, a jill-of-all-trades who uses her powers to keep her friends from The Third's deadly grasp.The prequel to the action-packed anime takes us to a time before Honoka is known as the formidable but graceful Sword Dancer: to the beginning of her quest to save the world, to a time when she scarcely understands the powers with which she has been blessed...
Surrounded by shifting sands, Honoka begins uncovering the true nature of her future as well as the past that has led her there. Meeting with things that have shaped the Dune Runner she will one day become-the scarred and shadowed Dune senior. Lidell, and the deadly soldier virus-Honoka comes ever closer to her future as savior and Sword Dancer in this second volume of The Third.