Red Sonja has taken a commission from the Gundermen: find the harriers that have been making raids on their snow-bound borders. Find them she does, and she joins in with the Gundermen in trying to exterminate the savages, but, in the fighting, she is knocked out by a blow from a berserker. She comes to in a cave, witnessing the butchery of the bodies from the battle by some sub-human. She is not the only survivor of the battle, and she rallies the survivors to try their way out of the den of the sub-humans. The savages have a leader, however, who is much more cultivated than her minions, and who commands other beasts of the Great White as well.