When detective Hank Snowdon started noticing strange piles of ash throughout Portland, he took it upon himself to investigate further with his unusual but dedicated partner, Luci. Traveling through the decaying factory district where most of the bizarre ash occurrences materialized, he found there was more to the sudden manifestations than met the eye. Testing this peculiar ash, he discovered that they were in fact...human Sort of... Confronted by a warrior named Benton, who has the ability to disintegrate other beings with his flaming sword, Hank's world continues to spiral away from...