It’s a long wait until the Last Battle of Law and Chaos, when the forces of Good and Evil will clash for the final time. So what’s a body to do in the meantime? Lythande has to earn a living, after all. Music and magic are saleable skills–sometimes both together. There’s a magic lute…. Mermaids, dragons, small children–Lythande’s life is full of challenges, of which the biggest is never allowing the Secret to be revealed, on pain of total loss of magic… oh, and death.