“Officers are not the former” it seemed to no one, and the hereditary military Attair Toot does not need to explain this unsophisticated truth 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 history of the Metropolis, an officer with brilliant career prospects and the brother of the commander himself unexpectedly resigns. Together with a young wife and a loyal ghoul, Drim Toot goes to teach in the small seaside town of Bella . Who would have known that this place would very soon become the arena for the invasion of the Island Fleet? Unless progressive Rudolf Sikorski, known in Saraksha as the Wanderer, could tell Atra the famous earthly saying “If you want peace, prepare for war”.