His embrace made me shudder more than the omen of…

Since Rosalind Ashford could remember, he had been haunted by the same nightmare every night—monsters ran rampant, and the city turned into a sea of fire. He dared not tell anyone, because his ability happened to be "time." He feared this nightmare was a prophecy of the future. As a specially recruited freshman, he arrived at this legendary hero training camp. Amid unfamiliarity and wariness, he met the first fellow student who extended a hand to him—Dominic Hale. Dominic Hale was crude, irritable, and never minced his words, yet he was the only one who treated him with his truest face.