The old order has fallen. Dark times have descended upon the Citadel. The fate of the osenyonnye was already hard before, and now it has become completely hopeless. Neither with blood nor with their own lives can they hold back those who roam by night. Frantic packs sweep through the lands, village by village, tormenting and killing the oberezhniki. And the osenyonnye children whom the kreffy do not manage to take for training disappear without a trace. People ask for protection, but the stone foundation of the Citadel is about to crack and collapse. And then the new head of the fortress decides to make a deal with those whom the oberezhniki have mercilessly spared neither for centuries nor in their extermination.