It was not easy for the young duchess Timiredis to make peace with her neighbor Viking enemies. If not for the help of the best mage of the Dragon Empire—the restless Shawn ter Deile—she and her friend, and her only relative, Askani ter Ansabi, would have perished on the distant island of Ponehyol’d.
Now new adventures and trials await. And how could it be otherwise, if you’re obsessed with magic, and dragon wings grow from your soul and pull you up into the sky? And it doesn’t matter that for now the path goes along the ground—because it leads to the farthest reaches, to the place of the Dragons’ Power—the sacred lake of the Half-Moon.
And this road won’t be boring, just as studying together with Askani won’t be dull at the magic school “Silver Narwhal,” where students will face not only dragon runes and the language of dwarves, but also dances, kisses, jokes at the teachers’ expense, and even magical cataclysms. And who could have thought that an ordinary thawed-over hole in the ice could turn out so useful…