The ancient forest is dark, keeping many secrets. Its original inhabitants are cruel - the elves, about whom wonderful tales and bloody legends are told, and often one cannot be distinguished from the other. The Atorre family is dangerous - a family of madmen, a family of executioners, a family of the Grand Duke's watchdogs... And I managed to join this family. Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Studying, training, the duties of the heir to a noble family - all this fell on my poor head. And then the elven prince desired freedom and ran away to freedom, to the academy, taking me with him as a guard. True, protecting a young elf turned out to be even more troublesome than training with a newly minted grandfather... But of two evils, they choose the lesser, and between training to be an assassin and studying at the academy, I will definitely choose the academy - and to hell with it all! But I shouldn’t have forgotten about his old enemy...