What happens when the person you were counting on to help you save the world is a drug addict?From the point of view of Ewan Inathius, heir to the throne of the Curae, nothing could be worse than spending his life in hiding from the evil magical despot, Ischis, High King of Verdania. When Ewan asks for help from Constance Neethe, heir to the throne of Men, it is with the hope that she wants the same. After all, it is Constance's people who have been put into slavery while the immortal Curae lord it over them.But Constance is an immature girl of twenty, content in her safety under the protection of her Cura guardian. Moreover, no one knows about her addiction to temeo, a powerful drug and a key ingredient in magical spells. How can she fight against a world where all humans are slaves and her addiction makes her susceptible to every evil enchantment?