Don't wander alone at night! Don't save wounded strangers! Don't leave magical traces! Because in a world where magic is banned, everyone who has even a grain of the Gift hides it. I broke all three rules. I lost my home and my family. I had to flee with my little son to another country, change my name and appearance. But you cannot hide from the punishing hand of the law. Yevann Rice is the royal interrogator. The one who persecutes magicians and deprives them of the Gift. The one I healed for my own misfortune. I hoped that we would never meet again. But here he is standing on my doorstep with a royal order in his hands...