Shchus, a young individual from a race of intelligent birds, goes to the abode of the Great Ones to find out why they stopped sending medicine, help and communicating with the Taitu people. However, once there, she not only learns the secret of the Great Ones, but also unwittingly finds herself faced with a problem that far exceeds the problems of the world she knows and opens up to her an unknown and alien world of people. The story became the winner of the competition of fantastic stories "Earth-Dawn" and is the literary debut of the musicians of the group Vedan Kolod Tatyana and Valery Naryshkin.