Zafs Varnaa knew from childhood that he was different from other people. Once in childhood, his father explained to him that he and his mother come from the genus of latent mentals, and since telepaths in the galaxy are banned, he does everything necessary so that the dangerous gift does not appear in Zafs. The boy meekly takes the medicines prepared by his father and tries to suppress the "bursts," as he calls them. When Zafs was almost twenty years old, the truth was revealed to him in all its drama: he belongs to the race of the rulers of the universe, the legis, and his very birth is a challenge to the secret force that leads everything and everyone in the universe, which means that a deadly hunt is open for Zafs...