Caassy returns on a dragon to Mara’s planet. Here she finds her family alive, but all the other owners of the Keeps have died from old age. She brings all the tribe members back to Ngarigo where they would start again on Earth to rebuild the Keeps and their tribal numbers and to find those kidnapped and enslaved. This is a story of interaction between tribes and dragonkind to keep the lands of their ancestors safe. It tells of the tribal lives and deaths of dragon and man alike.