“It was unofficially required that frontline soldiers be stained with blood during their training. Each of the ten guardsmen on guard killed at least once in the name of the Cardinal. I killed three times." A member of the Cardinal's personal guard, Al Jiri is investigating a cynical murder, but does not yet know that in the very near future his loyalty to his master will be severely tested: the people in white robes, Paukar Vami and the influential Cardinal himself - no one will remain indifferent. Because the City has its own laws.