Even the Grand Witcher himself acknowledged my merits and even granted me an apartment in Moscow! That’s nice, but I can’t let the main goal for now slip—namely, to cure all those seriously ill and build a team for a trek into the Cursed Lands, where the cache of the Pozharskys is kept. To do this, I decided to unite with my relatives—the count’s branch of the Rasputins. I hope this alliance will be useful for all of us. And I also hope my cousin Mlada Rasputina will put out of her head the thought that to strengthen the alliance, she and I must surely get married.