It’s unpleasant to learn that someone else has already laid out your life, and that there is no happy ending planned for you. It seems you’ve just taken fate into your own hands, when suddenly there are those who think otherwise. Newly found relatives, special services, and the aristocracy go around you in a kind of merry-go-round, trying to bend a talented young man to their will. What can he do? Eгор isn’t new to this: somewhere with blood, somewhere with cunning, and somewhere with compromises—he has to build his own ladder to the sky.