Life in the Academy went on as usual: we studied, trained, prepared for the spring ball… until one of the gods decided to have some fun. Let him have fun—if only he hadn’t dragged ordinary mortals into his games, meaning all of us. A tragedy on a world scale happened. At the Academy, curfew was introduced, and I suddenly had too many enemies per square meter. Still, there are some positives: I finally saw my beast—though at what a price!..