As the death-storm rages outside, Healer recalls the chanting of spells and incantations on the night of a solemn ceremony in the ruins of London. The inter-generational effects of radiation and the lack of medicine cause much suffering among a population clinging to life and hope. (Internet English of the future: sky-firewall shutdown=effects of nuclear war; deletion=death).
Thousands of years in the future, civilisation has collapsed and all knowledge has been lost. But a young woman and her friends believe they can summon the magic of the "speaking stone" - if they can survive their journey into the ruined City of the Underpeople, once known as London. And there are others who desire the great powers of the talisman.
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