Ever Our world is like water to them. The daemons swim invisbly through rock and trees, men and beasts -- until they are summoned by a handler, collared and imprisoned in oak and silver to power entire cities with their rage.
The Daemon in the Machine
Crispin became a daemon handler as a boy, taught by an exiled courtier who had become a circus bum. The gift gave him wings, carrying him all the way to far Kirekune, the home of his long-lost love. And on to contact with the most exotic civilization of all. America...