Suite aux événements de Trails from Zero, la Special Support Section se retrouve avec de nouveaux membres et de nouvelles missions. Cependant, les tensions croissantes au sein de Crossbell ainsi que les pressions exercées par les deux puissances politiques voisines menacent la sécurité de la ville ainsi que l'intégrité de l'équipe.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
