About the book: year / You never know how independent life can turn out. In dreams it means new friends and love, in reality it means losses and trials. It was not of my own free will that I ended up so far from home; my father sent me to study in the cold provincial Ber-Sukht, instead of the prestigious academy of magic near my house. I didn't know then that he had really good reasons. I didn’t know that this was the only chance for me. Magic is an effort of will. I have to cope.