About the book: 2023 / All the animals fled from Darnell. Those people who did not follow them bear the mark of a mad eye on their souls. For the sake of revenge, Victor is ready to serve an ancient creature imprisoned at the bottom of the well, but he could not predict the consequences - the memories of life before the Guardians returned to him, which were not in vain erased. Heid is hunted by the living and the dead, his only chance to escape from evil fate is help the owner of the birds open the Forerunner Crucible. Their paths converged in the Bagortt fortress: one must take a life, the other an artifact. How fragile will the union of a sorcerer and a thief be??