About the book: 2003 / He is an Animist. A boy wizard who goes in search of his anima - an animal companion, without a telepathic connection with which he cannot, will not be able to become a master of his art. Everything is simple. Is everything as always? But – WHY then, are the adepts of the Dark Force trying to destroy him, an inexperienced apprentice, again and again? Why does the strangest anima imaginable come to him in the hour of terrible danger? And WHAT power can contact with SUCH an animal give a young animist, when the fate of an entire kingdom will depend on this power? Before you is a NEW BOOK by Eve Forward, known to domestic readers as the author of the brilliant “comic fantasy” “Reluctant Villains”»!