guided by a tattooed map a company by Thomas the big boy and inspired by the storytellers blood that thrones through her vein 11-year-old trinket searches for seven stories she needs to become a Bard like her father who disappeared years before. on her magical journey she be friends fortune telling gypsy girl seeks a child stolen by cell keys confronts a banshee out with a dangerous fairy battles of dastardly undead highwaymen and defends a baby Prince loyal four legged friend all fine material for six tails but it is a seventh tail in which shrink it learns her father's true fate that changes her life forever. and this mesmerizing depiction of a young girl's quest to uncover both her past and her future Shelly more Thomas draws heavenly on something folklore from Ireland Scotland Wales we even magical elements she remembers from Taylor she heard as a child.