About the book: year / It’s time for final tests at the school of winged lizard riders in Norgord. And then everyone around seemed to have conspired to make the most important day in Hamfast’s life the craziest. Trolls attacked the northern workings. Father and other riders are preparing for a combat mission. But who is much more dangerous than trolls are people. But the current ruler wants to bring Nørgård out of its centuries-long isolation and advocates rapprochement with those very people. The entire population of Stone Town gathers in the central square in anticipation of decisions made at the convened Council of Elders.