Crossroads is a city of alchemists and merchants, bandits and scientists, insurance agents and assassins. People and non-humans of all stripes flock to it - it’s no joke, because there are hundreds of opportunities to get rich, but thousands to lose their wallet, or even their own lives.

So Ivain went there to try his luck - and who would have known, that all this will end with an escape from custody, work for the most dangerous crime boss in the city, meeting a couple of gremlins, friendship with an orc librarian and many other, no less outstanding events.

The main thing is not to forget, that the presumption of guilt is one of the cornerstones of the judicial system of the Skorda Republic.

Author's notes: My very first completed major work, written either in 2010 or 2011. Since then there has been some minor (technical) editing.