Lake beasts prowl through the city of Vastalt on restless nights. Alexi hunts them, but it doesn’t pay well.
So when he scrapes together enough money to buy a girl he likes a bouquet, he can’t think of anything worse than for the bells to toll and a new beast to terrorize his city. As an apprentice to The Brotherhood of The Blessed Monastic Fraternity of Saint Ariel, he’s obliged to answer the call for help, but he’s terrified.
What if the flowers don’t survive?