It must be fun to read about the intrigues of boyar families who wield ancient magic. And it’s not fun at all: to get involved in these intrigues when you are just a clerk of the Robust Order, and in your past life you were not at all an old experienced operator, an ordinary first-year student. So try to figure out what is happening (and find out what exactly is happening), what the boyars want (and what they don’t want), how to slip between a rock and a hard place (and stay alive) and what does it have to do with you? And these girls too...