When Flint Fireforge's friends dispersed in different directions from Solace, vowing to meet again after five years, the dwarf himself was in no hurry to set off. And it is unknown whether he would have moved at all if he had not received alarming news from Hillow’s hometown. It turned out that the derro mountain gnomes, who for many centuries had been implacable enemies of the hill gnomes, had made the city one of the transit points for transporting some goods. But Flint does not yet know what kind of goods and to whom the derro are actually selling...