Caupo cins (capuchins). Their line of work is to give their lives for decent people when those people, by chance or a stupid mistake, face mortal danger. Does that sound like pure nonsense? The same seemed to the young prince Dagaan, whose careless father died without even passing on to his son a tiny portion of the knowledge that the ruler of the largest trading power in the known galaxy must possess. Dagaan will have to go through many trials, make a lot of mistakes, to understand who capuchins really are, what power lies in their self-sacrificing service, and why they’re held in such high regard throughout the Sphere…