After getting my bachelor’s degree in the ordinary world, I never expected that I’d have to go to a magical world to take a special course for children of the Departed. My father promised it would be safe and that I could return at any moment—but from the very first days everything went wrong: I ended up in a trap, and someone is trying with enviable persistence to get rid of me for good.
Why did my parents hide my origin from me all my life and send me to Orto completely unprepared? Why do they keep lying to me? What sparked the interest in my modest person of the teacher of Dark Rituals and Curses—and what secrets does he himself keep?