Koli is a boy who is afraid of trees. After the world broke down plants and animals were dying
so people made them stronger. Now everyone is afraid of them. Koli is also afraid of Shunned
Men the outcasts outside the village walls. And he's afraid to tell the girl he likes how he
feels. But if Koli can become a Rampart if he can wake the technology of the old world he
knows he won't have to be afraid of anything again. He's wrong.