Aluna lives around the year 6,000 BC. When an infant, her mother died during a big game hunting acccident, also leaving her father crippled. Forced by this tragic loss and ill fortune, her father settles down and gives up his nomadic life to take care of little Aluna. During her lifetime, Aluna witnesses climatic change on a cataclysmic scale. After the last ice age, her world is changing: the big rivers are flooding and changing their known world into marshes and lakes, her fathers dwelling is flooded again and again. Freak waves wreak havoc. As Aluna is entering puberty, the urge to 'spread her wings' and explore the world beyond gets stronger... This is Book 2 of "The Lines, Circles and Crosses Trilogy', Chapter One.