Everything is behind us: a crazy leap from one world to another, and the miracle of little Zlatka’s healing, and a convulsive escape from New Kitezh-grad from Murza, nicknamed the Wolf, raging in impotent anger. Now the newly minted magician Nikita Zimin faces boredom in the dull outback of the Foggy Pass station. Here you can catch butterflies at the top of the Krona, where toothy toads and evil kikimoras live; go to visit a neighbor baron with the cute nickname Golovorub; and walk through the forest, in which you can easily stumble upon a rattling lion or a unicorn, with the dimensions and habits of a mad elephant. Babble, and that’s all! The only thing missing is romance. But this is not a problem either. The stationmaster will meet a beautiful stranger, after which he will understand that in both worlds there is no more beautiful and more dangerous creature than a woman.