In the long-awaited return to the Eisner Award-nominated apocalyptic fantasy world of Coda, the disheartened bard Hum finds a slice of tranquility with his wife, Serka, in an ever-darkening, magic-less apocalypse - or so it seems. Prophecies of paradise and the return of magic? Hum is skeptical, while Serka faces her own difficult moral decisions on the road, with winter quickly approaching... For every hero's weakness, there's a companion with an equal degree of strength, and that's exactly how Hum and company will get through the fateful, magical mayhem. But there are some unexpectedly unthinkable things that only Hum is capable of...

"Originally published in single magazine form as Coda Vol. 2 No. 1-5."