Kinch Na Shannak, like any representative of the Galt people, has a black tongue. While still a teenager, to avoid being sent to war, Kinch entered the school of the Guild of Takers, in other words, thieves, in which he learned cunning criminal crafts and even acquired some magical skills. But he needs to pay for the training, so Kinch sits in ambush to rob the first person who appears on the forest road. But he has to meet a far from harmless traveler. Galva is a female knight, a veteran of the Goblin Wars, and an excellent fighter. And she has a secret weapon - a corvid, a huge war bird hidden in a magical tattoo. Kinch will not be able to defeat this woman in a fight. But he will have a chance to settle accounts with the Guild by completing a very strange assignment. Galva is on her way to the distant kingdom of Austrim, which was recently attacked by an army of giants. Kinch will have to accompany her, trying to gain her trust, and wait for further orders. For the first time in Russian!