Everyone knows—don’t give up, even if everything goes wrong and not as planned. Not all people act that way when trouble comes to them, but Maxim Charushin, who lost in the Urals, holds exactly that view. Besides, the trail of an artifact called “The Tear of the Clan” leads to Moscow—his hometown—and at home, as everyone knows, even walls help. Plus, in his deck he still has a few aces he hasn’t laid on the table yet, giving him decent chances that the job he took on will be completed after all—and he’ll get the reward he desperately needs. And then… Then it will be time to repay an old debt.