Alk, Ryska and Zhar continue their difficult path: some want to escape from the past, some want to change the future, and some are happy about the present, but fate inexorably drives everyone further. It’s not just the resilient trinity who are having a hard time: clouds are gathering over both tsarities, the Year of the Rat is inexorably gaining strength and it seems impossible to avoid it. Where will the Wayfarer come? Who will the Candle light the way for? And, it would seem, what does the guitar have to do with it? Read and find out