Deed began to cry and told Fenil that she would go straight home and get her things. Kriss and Fenil followed the girl all the way back to the apartment. Kriss had decided that she would ask if she could accompany them on the trip just in case. It was not until they all got into the apartment that Kriss noticed the strange clothing that Fenil was wearing.

Kriss went with Deed to her room and saw her knock on the back of the closet, and it opened and Deed dragged out an old trunk. When Kriss saw what was on the inside of the trunk she almost fainted: A bunch of fairy tale books, some strange clothes, and a box that Deed was pulled out first. The contents of the box was just two simple things: first, a crown, small and silver, and the second thing, which Deed actually put on, was an amulet in the shape of a tear drop. It had a howling wolf at the top, and a bird at the bottom. Deed emptied out the contents of her backpack and started shoving things from the trunk into the bag.

When Kriss, a girl with a mysterious past, meets her roommate, Deed's, brother Fenil (grown children of Virginia and Wolf), she finds herself swept into the Nine Kingdoms, where she saves Deed and Fenil's baby sister, finds true love, and also discovers the answer to a problem in her own past.