Mick began to notice for a long time that as soon as someone pisses him off, the person gets cancer and dies six months later. All the orphanage teachers eventually ended up in the cemetery. Children are naughty, they are forbidden to do certain things, they get offended, and Mick, along with resentment and irritation, sowed death. Mick decided to escape from the orphanage so that innocent people would no longer suffer. But he fell between two anvils: two groups wanted to get the boy into their hands...

Award for achievements in science fiction (Hugo Award) in 1988 (category "Story").