Kellen has a little magic, a couple of card tricks, and an outstanding ability to end up in dubious stories. In the Seven Sands, you won’t find a seventeen-year-old guy whose head is worth more than his own. Fortunately, he has friends who are ready at any moment to save him from a certain death—Ferius Perfex’s argos and the white-beast cat, the most reliable companion and business partner. Reychys definitely won’t betray him! Unless… for a hot bath or a plate of sweet pastries.
Once in Gitabria, the city of great scientific discoveries, Ferius, Kellen, and Reychys learn that the Big Exhibition will open soon, where an amazing invention will be presented—a mechanical bird. But no one knows that the mechanical miracle has a secret, and the inventor Janucha keeps it very carefully. The little bird was made with help from border magic and something else… something that makes it alive. But why is it so dangerous? Why does the woman make the same mistake in the diagrams again and again? And why is she willing to do anything to keep her secret safe and hidden?