Ox was twelve when his dad taught him a very important lesson. He said Ox was a dummy and people would never understand him. And then dad left. Ox was sixteen when he met a boy on the road who talked and talked and talked. Ochs later found out that the boy had not spoken for almost two years before that day, and that he was from a family that had moved into the house at the end of the alley. Ochs was seventeen when he learned the boy's secret, and it painted the world around him red, orange and purple is the colors of Alpha, Beta and Omega. Ox was twenty-three when a murder occurred in the city, leaving a hole in his heart and head. The boy chased the monster with a thirst for revenge in his blood-red eyes, leaving Ox to pick up the pieces. Three years have passed since that fateful day, and the boy has returned. Now he was a man, and Ox could no longer ignore the song that howled between them.