Are the stories real? Now that is a fine question. Few ask it anymore, and even fewer care... Wendell's life has always been difficult and hopeless as he wanders about the dusty streets of the city. Stealing rolls from the baker and getting hired to chase crows away, the only comfort he finds is in listening to the old stories and songs of the passing storytellers. Yet one day after he visits the royal painter, he will have to decide whether the stories are true enough to believe in and to risk everything for. But there may be secrets to the stories which no one remembers anymore, that he will have to face alone.