High in the mountains, the castle of the Saitor family froze on the pass - only ruins remained from it, but the memory of the stone keeps an ancient secret. A mysterious guard sleeps in the bowels of the rocks, waiting for someone who can call him and subdue him. Peers live their own lives - strange and amazing for a man of the plains, but native and familiar to those who were born and raised on the pass. Very far from there, at the court of Prince Dakkor, young Alena is brought up - an orphan, the last of the Saitor clan. But is the care of her sovereign guardian so sincere? Is he willing or building cunning plans on her account? And why does he - and does he? - need a mysterious guard of the pass?