Sworn to serve for an empire she knows nothing about, Tulip was trained to be a solider from the moment she turned of age; as all of the empire's orphans are forced to choose between hard labor or a solider's life.
Stationed in the hills southwest of the capitol city, in the captured country of Orthos, her battalion is ordered to hold back any invaders coming in from the sea.
Although she does not follow religion, she begins stopping into the Temple of Aphrodite. Flowering trees surround the hilltop temple, making it smell oh so sweet; the legendary surgery fruit growing along the temple walls does not even compare to the lovely priest she meets near the crumbling fountain...........
She starts to pray; not for fame, or money, or even for the war - but to spend even more time in Orthos, to spend every minute she can with the enchanting priest she met, Butch.