Nick awakens to find himself lying on the forest floor with a sword, a mask and no memory. Yet something remembers Nick - a foe so powerful it can slice a tractor trailer in two with its sword-like fingers. The name of Nick's foe is The Whisper, and where Nick goes, it soon shall follow. Nick feels a calling -a pull- towards Atlanta. What he finds there are people who need help, who need a hero. When he does what comes naturally, protecting others using his sword and almost superhuman agility, the people respond with an emotion they'd almost forgotten - with hope. Set in an alternate version...