At the Festival of Fiery Vows, I promised that before next year I would reveal the secret of the ignikors—enchanted flowers that, on this magical day, watch to see whether people keep their promises. The vow turned out to be frivolous and unimaginably risky: there were only three days until the deadline, and instead of the answer I needed, I managed to find out other people’s secrets—and I barely avoided paying for it with my life. Aiden Rejstоrm— a mysterious undefeated loner from the Faculty of Power—kept me from ending up as an empty shell for bodiless entities. But it was he who forced me to make a new vow—and fulfilling it will be far harder than the previous one.