Pervaya chast" dilogii o mire Silmiral, gde dusha cheloveka, sluchayno (ili vsye-taki ne sluchayno?) popavshego v etot mir predstavlyaetsya v vide... zverinoy sushchnosti. Vse soroki lyubyat blestyashchie veshchi. Vse chelovecheskie osobi zhenskogo pola tozhe v kakoy-to mere soroki... Vozmozhno, imenno poetomu nichego ne podozrevayushchaya semnadtsatiletnyaya devushka podbiraet prelyubopytnyy siyayushchiy kristall, kotoryy (v rezul"tate cheredy trudnoob"yasnimykh sobytiy) privodit eye v Silmiral, mir, gde uzhe vot kotoryy god dlitsya bezzhalostnaya voyna...