This collection contains different stories, but they are all about the same thing - about Styx. It shows different sides of this simultaneously frightening and attractive world. The stories and destinies of people forced to fight for survival every day. Raiders and Moores, Kildings and Institute students, good and not so good, they all have one thing in common - the thirst to survive. Someone has just begun to study the laws of the Hive, and someone has already penetrated so deeply into its secrets that for him the path back to the kingdom of people is forever closed. Some are only trying to earn a piece of bread and a sip of live bait, while others will not calm down, even if will conquer the whole stab. Everyone has their own appetites, but in the end they are all just food for the infected. The hive, like a seasoned gambler, shuffles people’s destinies. And we all understand that this is a scary world full of deadly dangers, but deep down even the most successful of us would like to be there.