She was born in a world that the inhabitants of other Essences call Quiet Harbor - some with a slight disdain, and others with a tinge of envy. For eighty years now, this world, slowly moving along the path of technological progress, has not known war, but its inhabitants had to pay a high price for this by introducing strict birth control.

Girls who fail the test will never experience joy motherhood, young people will turn away from them, because “who needs a woman who is not able to give life to children”? Therefore, when the sickly girl Linda, who had practically no chance of passing the selection, discovered the gift of a “motalitsa”, a wanderer through the Essence Worlds, she left her native Rugiland without much regret.