Kitov Sige is an indentured apprentice scribe living in the capital city of the greatest empire in the known world: Imrodan. What his life lacks in freedoms are supposedly made up for with straightforwardness and relative safety, though he’s always wished for adventures like the ones he’s read about in books. When one of the Emperor’s daughters is set to wed a foreign official Kitov is given the opportunity to travel along as part of her personal guard and the world turns out to be much larger and more complicated than it seemed to be in books.