About the book: 2023 / The young warrior May, the king’s successor, has been preparing all her life to ascend to the Ash Throne. She is the fastest flyer the floating city of Elidor has ever known. But when the king dies, the rune of the lord appears not on her, but on the forehead of a mysterious merchant of secrets from a beggar's quarter named Luan. And here's the bad luck - it is May who must help him learn how to handle his newfound power. She takes on this business extremely reluctantly, but at some point she realizes that not only the lives of the two of them, but also the future of all of Elidor depend on the success of the enterprise..