What does a person need to be happy? A home where you’re expected. A family that loves you. Companions who are ready to move mountains for you. And in times of apocalypse—won’t the priorities change? They probably won’t, but the difficulty of accomplishing the tasks will grow many times over. Vlad was able to gain all of this, to get back what had been lost, and—seemingly—just live and be happy. But fate has a different view of his future. What will he do when he understands what those ancient entities have sentenced all the survivors on the planet to—the ones who couldn’t care less about the fate of the planet and its inhabitants?