Of Monsters, Myths, and the Michigan Ice

In the world of professional hockey, the surname Touden is synonymous with legend, but for Laios, it is an iron chain. Fleeing the suffocating expectations of his father in Norway and the ghosts of a career he never asked for, Laios lands in Detroit as the Red Wings' new and 'strange' signing. Between brutal training sessions and obsessive analysis of his opponents' anatomy (and what a Kraken's skeleton would look like under the ice), Laios is just trying to survive the noise of fame.