If a girl puts a flirtatious flower in her window, it means trouble has come to the house—there’s nothing to live on. But when Oberon Renar, who appeared at the recently orphaned daughter of General Lecler, sensed the spirit not only of trouble, but of a crime as well. The dean of the faculty of dark magic is used to fighting the spawn of evil. Who and why has been so persistently hunting the fragile, at first glance completely harmless, general’s daughter? He doesn’t yet know that an attempt to save the girl will put the entire Academy of Magic at risk. What riddles await the heroes in a storeroom cluttered with junk? Will the creeping living darkness in the mirrors stop laughing at the winner of the evil hunt?