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In the year 1991, on the island of Manhattan, just before starting ninth grade, Travis chose a glass diamond as his prize at an arcade. Angela was given her teardrop crystal by her grandmother after her mother was killed in action, and Angela gave Faye her crystal snowflake as a Christmas present last year. None of these three classmates and close friends have any suspicions that the three crystals would lead the three of them on a wonderous adventure hidden in plain sight, where carriage horses and museum statues are not always what they seem.

The Kingdom of Saphalite is watched over by the nature deities The Lady of Waterfalls and Father Tempest. During a storm, an impulsive decision will change the fate of Saphalite forever. The two deities are worshipped, and the kingdom is ruled by the kind King Darius and the wise Queen Freya. Their two sons Darrow and Bowen have differing approaches to ruling, especially with their parents going away on a brief vacation. They also have contrasting opinions regarding their hair.

A powerful source of sickness, death, and sorrow unknowingly created by light rises up to reap chaos among the families of both light and darkness, mortals and immortals. The domestic bliss of Mesagan and Deucalion is disturbed when a harbinger of this malevolence comes scratching at their front door. With the rest of their family sailing around Sinuatollion Solange and Clarion-Ananais's peaceful time alone is interrupted when Cody the unicorn comes with news of a mysterious massacre that befell the animals of the Sacranaris Swamp.