I made a mistake. Not the first in my life, but for it I will face harsh retribution: studying at the Academy of the Outcasts. I will have to spend here three years, and only then will they release me “from custody”—if, of course, I remain alive.
Snow in September is a bad omen. As soon as the gates of the Academy shut behind me, life turned into a cold hell. But the mistakes of the past and the fears of the present fade before one single desire: to find out who the Spirit of Winter is and why he made me his Chosen One.