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Toby has been paralyzed since birth; Emma is a Sudanese refugee. They're the only descendants of the rightful king of a fantasy kingdom beneath Iceland, and it's up to them to save the land from tyranny. While the plot becomes a scaffold for predictable conflict scenes, and Toby and Emma are more two-dimensional than real, the story contains a dramatic setting and cool fantasy inventions.