Forty days later the ship reached Astra. The guards dropped off the prisoners in Asson, the capital of the Dreaming. And already in the morning the criminals entered the stadium arena. Twenty thousand spectators were present in the stands. The Plaidians applied war paint to the skin of the half-naked convicts, corresponding to the image of some predatory animal. The young earthling received the nickname Lone Wolf. The major liked the desperate boy. Andrew, unwittingly, became a popular gladiator in the Duchy of Plaid.