This text includes extracts from songs by the bands Picnic, Sunday, Spleen, and Blackmore's Night Copyright © 2006 Sergei Lukyanenko This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. ISBN 1-4013-5979-5 First Edition