Sometimes the world begins to move—and then you can’t sit it out either in the mountains or in the desert.
A flame of rebellion is growing in the north, and the farther it spreads, the more the sons of lords defy the will of their regal father. In the darkness, a third power lifts its head—greedy, cruel—and no one will get mercy from it. In the south, the temple clashed with the conclave; in the oasis of Kashim the slaves rose up, and they are led by a rider with a sorcerer’s sword, sorrow in his heart… And beneath the dunes, an old evil sleeps—and soon it will be time for it to wake. Between the north and the south, two wander. Alar, a traveler from the эстра, wants to recover his lost memory—and a new place in a world that no longer recognizes him. Fogarta Soi-ron, an ученая-kimort, searches for the teacher she lost—the one to whom her heart always belonged…
But they don’t know how much pain this meeting will bring them.