Morgiana has passed the previous six months traveling with a caravan, but just when she is about to reach her destiny, the city of Balbadd, where she hopes to take a boat to her homeland, she learns that the caravan will take another route because of a group of thieves on their way. Morgiana decides to confront the thieves by herself and is defeated by a slave trader who paralyzes her with the poisonous claws of his eagle. Once again in chains, she wakes up near a scared child who was separated from her parents and when the slave traders learn that the girl is feverish, they decide to feed their beasts with her...