A secret kept by the Graffheoria for centuries is no longer a secret. Step onto the territory of the country—each person acquires a magical gift: levitators can fly, puppet-masters give lifeless things signs of the living, ephemera outpace even the cheetah… The source of these gifts is white aurum—an ancient stone as old as the world, endowing people with one of eight aspects (incarnations). But what happens if the miraculous white aurum is stolen right during a popular holiday—under the very nose of Id Harsh, the best detective in the capital? The stone ends up outside the country—it will no longer grant aspects, sacred essence of the grafves… And what is to do with Irvelin, a pianist and a recluse suspected of the theft, when she returned to Graffheoria right on the eve of the tragedy?