"You will die soon, and when thunder thunders three times, when the bells ring and a sunny intruder lies on the floor next to you, go where the corpse smell has not yet disappeared! So you will prove that you deserve to become my beloved!" Such a parting word is given by the god of death to his mistress Arta. Another heroine of this book - Melia - herself becomes the goddess of retribution and kills not only her loved ones, but also two butchers and many law enforcement officers. Young Arden decides to stab and rob his friend - an old man with whom he is used to talking about philosophy. And if Sir Gatselsson, who found himself on a desert island, had four legs, we would say that three of them he stood in madness, and one in his right mind.