Initiative is punishable! Well, you shouldn’t argue with this truth, otherwise you will definitely end up with problems on your own head, skin and other parts of the body. That’s how it turned out for Swallow, a luck-kissed earthling, who is now the chief court magician under King Azalea. Apparently, he missed the moment when luck got tired of kissing, or maybe the gods just decided to play a trick on him, but suddenly Swallow felt the urge to nominate his candidacy for the inspection of the county of Prynmouth, from where taxes had not been sent for a suspiciously long time. Well, he put forward, well, he went, and... Oh, how they greeted him there! And who would have thought that the province lives such a busy life, just have time to shrug it off and dodge!