No one knows their fate. Nienika, too, didn’t. She is a girl-orphan raised in the palace kitchen. Her lot is to marry a fish merchant—thoroughly soaked in the smell of his goods. But neither the merchant nor the злоя мегера, the senior cook Hammeli, could imagine what future awaits the orphan Nienika. And she herself didn’t know.
Nienika only dreamed of the sky—and even that, in a world covered beneath the vault of a vast cave, isn’t simple: through the roots of the cave world, up to the stars.
From the fate of a wife trapped in a fish merchant’s routine to power—equal to which there is none in the Galaxy...