“Officers are never former” - it seemed that there was no need to explain this simple truth to anyone, but the hereditary military man Attair Toot. And yet, after a successful coup in the Capital and the fall of the regime of the Unknown Fathers, one of the youngest colonels in the entire history of the Metropolis, an officer with brilliant career prospects and the brother of the commander himself, unexpectedly resigns. Together with his young wife and his faithful ghoul Dream, Toot goes to teach in the small seaside town of Bella. Who would have known that this very place would very soon become the arena for the invasion of the Island Fleet. Perhaps the progressor Rudolf Sikorsky, known on Saraksha as the Wanderer, could tell Atru the well-known earthly proverb “If you want peace, prepare for war”...