Amazing and strange things are happening in a distant settlement, almost on the border of the inhabited world. The Kandyan Abbeys are alarmed. To help the local priest, they send a young assistant - the promising killer Hiero Distin. No one expects special feats and miracles from the young man... But circumstances are such that he, willy-nilly, has to take responsibility for the life of an entire village. Published under the pseudonym “Kevin Royston”