All Dancy wants is to catch a bus. While waiting, she strikes up a conversation with a talking blackbird. Before she can get the information she needs she encounters a young girl named Maise, who seems "hungry" for her flesh.
*For nearly as long as she can remember, Dancy Flammarion has fought monsters, cutting a bloody swath through the demons and dark things of the world, aimed like a weapon by forces beyond her control or questioning. *Source: darkhorse.com