Diara, the best student at a provincial university, is transferred to the Imperial Academy of Necromancy—losing her status and achievements. Why does she need it? And why is she so eager to get into the Academy’s basements, a path strictly forbidden to ordinary mages?
No one was supposed to learn the truth. Especially not one rude and insolent aspirant who, from day one, sticks pins in the girl’s plans. That could have become a serious problem—if not for this: hey, why did that idiot go to the cemetery at night, full of higher undead? And what is that huge winged shadow behind him?..