On the edge of the city, among standard new developments, stands the Grey House, where Sphinx, the Blind One, the Lord, Tabbaki, Macedonian, the Black One, and many others live. It is unknown whether the Lord truly comes from the noble line of dragons, but the Blind One is indeed blind, and the Sphinx is wise. Tabbaki, of course, isn’t a jackal, although he loves to profit from other people’s possessions. For everyone in the House there is a nickname of their own, and one day in it can sometimes contain as much as, in our Outside world, we cannot live even for an entire lifetime. Each one the House either accepts or rejects. The House keeps an abundance of secrets, and the banal «skeletons in the closet» are only the most understandable corner of that invisible world from which there is no way out of the Outside, where the familiar laws of space and time stop working.
The House is something much more than a boarding school for children whom their parents abandoned. The House is their separate universe.