It happens that children and loved ones suffer for the crimes of their fathers. But even the harshest sentence can be appealed in a world where there is a Magic Clause - the last chance to cheat fate for the most desperate. And a real mother, of noble blood, will never give up until she saves her son. Even if for this you have to vegetate without memory in one of the Bone Worlds devoid of magic. From the author: The Thing was conceived as a cycle of four novels. Perhaps I’ll return to it when I want to tell Peter’s story. The novel has a spin-off in one of the New Year's stories.