It happens that the journey begins where it was not expected at all, and the wedding of your best friend almost turns into the funeral of the heroes of the occasion. Andarion is forgotten, and Evanika, having replaced the crown with a daring Streltsy hat, hurries through half of the Russian Principality for advice to her former mentor. Only now the seemingly easy road becomes more and more difficult with each step, more and more often the forest witch faces a difficult choice - whether to live as a person “according to his conscience” or to go further along the path of someone else’s debt imposed by the crown.