In the thousand-year-old city of Nuremberg, sleep was approaching Anja as a dove descending. She has become engaged this evening, and takes thoughts of this most ancient of contracts to bed with her. So much of life's energy stirred is sure to attract primitive creatures of the night, and indeed a dragon soon circles in her dream. In the New World a Cherokee is meditating on Turtle Mountain. The Dove calls him to a spirit journey, into Anja's dreams. A descendent of warriors, and of one of the Five Civilized Tribes, it's not so surprising that he is a firefighter in Nuremberg's sister city, Atlanta. Some may suspect that it is his presence which provokes the Dragon - in any event they must face the beast together.