Alice successfully finished school in Perm and, as planned, enrolled in the Academy of State Security. But will they let her study in peace?
Not only have they saddled her with additional and completely non-voluntary duties, and not only does Ivanov’s figure keep appearing somewhere nearby all the time—but at the Academy they also won’t let her forget who she is and what her family did. To everyone around her, it seems she doesn’t belong here. The aristocrats are afraid to deal with her, while commoners think she’s a high-born upstart who amounts to nothing.
Of course, there are those who support her. But how sincere is it—or are they just trying to fit her into someone else’s schemes?