Before wars are won, they must be witnessed. Elize Janview is one of the few survivors of the terrible weapon that plunged the North and the South back into all-out war. She enlisted seeking justice or revenge but was posted to guard a prison fortress far from the front. When spy Marius Mondegreen, the legendary 'Misheard Word', is delivered to the prison, Janview is ordered to record his interrogation by the terrifying Allynx Syld. As the interrogation unfolds, she gradually learns that nothing she thought she knew - about Marius, the Allynx, the beginnings of the war, even the very world she lives in - can be trusted...