About the book: 2005 / For many centuries now, an ancient castle has risen above the small German town of Aufbe. Its black walls sparkle and shimmer in the sun. His shadow covers the town with a gloomy blanket at any time of the day or night. Its owner spends his mornings with the raised dead - just a warm-up - and chats over a glass of intoxicating nectar with a real Unicorn. The three met in Aufbe, not yet knowing that their meeting was predetermined by the One who created all things. The American student is a purebred fairy, unaware of it. Soviet Komsomol member is a magician, an excellent student at the Faculty of Applied Ethnography at the KGB Higher School, the eldest heir to an ancient family of Knights of Light. A stylish young man, most similar to an eccentric film actor - the Prince of Dark Paths, the Winged Serpent, the evil that guards the whole city. Are they given the opportunity to understand their destiny? Will they fulfill it? And if they do, will their world remain the same as before??..