Always remember that you have only one goal — to survive! Especially if you are a homeless orphan with a magical gift, needed by no one, whom a kind magister brought to the University of Magic and abandoned among the “masters of life.” Always remember — any of your successes will drive the rector into a rage, because you have taken away yet another reason for him to expel you. Always remember — you can easily be sacrificed, handed over, for example, to dragons to burn the magic out of you. But always believe that there is more good than evil around you, and that there will be those who are ready to help and protect you.
Only never — never! — go near the Black Dragon. Otherwise all your previous problems will seem trivial compared to what the Lord of the winged people will promise you.