Humans and beasts alike were licking their wounds after the bloodiest battle in cosmic history. They had been pawns puppets whose strings had been pulled by a cruel master: Heljanita the Toymaker. Heljanita had used what he considered to be the deadliest weapon a ten thousand year distortion of time His purpose: to obliterate a world he'd hated. But his new world was a powder-keg. For two of his victims, stranded in time, were deter-mined to fight back. Time, as before, was manipulated. twisted, bent and perverted ... up to a point.