On the night of a double birthday, Darius is drawn deeper into the struggle between the healer he could become and the warrior he was trained...
Darius continues training Lee Ayi in martial arts, and the first refugees appear at the gate.
As Darius learns Ma Shushu’s medicine, seeing a dying child takes his mind back to his own dark past.
Lee Ayi reveals something disturbing about Darius's maternal family; and Darius is pushed to demonstrate his fighting abilities.
A day of prayer, work, and long-buried family truths ends with Darius left behind, wondering what he is not being told.
Gravely wounded and fevered, Darius wakes among strangers who may become the first real family he has ever known.
A mistake in the new city's crowded and dangerous streets leaves Darius wounded, sick and alone on the road.
Alone on the farm, Darius must survive hunger, violence, and the quiet ache of abandonment as he clings to hope that his father still lives.
A brutal childhood under a violent father forges young Darius into a skilled fighter, setting the stage for a life shaped by hardship, survival and the...