The world of the Other is going mad, and the spiral of events tightens ever more around a modest artist from Novosibirsk traveling through Asia with a backpack. She refuses to accept the magical gift and the world divided into Light and Darkness. Who is she—cold-blooded criminal? A blind instrument of Fate? A pawn in the intrigues of the Great Ones? Or a Light mage endowed with her own will?
To preserve her life and freedom, she will have to fight those who are far stronger, and solve a task that even the wisest and most experienced mages couldn’t handle.