Randal, un joven mago, y su mejor amiga Lys son invitados a unirse al grupo de actores de la corte de un amable príncipe adinerado. Randal pronto tropieza con una conspiración contra el príncipe. A fifteen-year-old journeyman wizard needs all the magic he has thus far learned when he and his companion Lys are drawn into the political problems of a good and powerful prince.