About the book: year / “It’s just a boarding school for girls,” my mother told me. Only she was wrong. Just like other human parents. And no one is in a hurry to dissuade them: the mermaids once already paid dearly for being too gullible. Nobody wants a repeat of the Hunt. But fate does not ask the opinion of anyone, just as a player does not ask the opinion of chess pieces. And everything moves smoothly but steadily towards the Second Hunt.