An amazing book! Max Fry takes you on a journey through strange, mysterious, and seemingly familiar places. Read it, and the world will change. And this other world will never let you go... 'To be an orphaned basilisk, deprived from infancy of the presence of elders, and therefore of the knowledge they could have imparted about yourself and the world around you. To live in a dungeon, to eat precious stones, to know nothing about yourself—not your bird's head, not your snake's tail, not your beautiful toad's eyes, not your ability to kill with a glance, not the mortal danger posed by a rooster's crow. To think that the darkness of the cave is the entire world, and the fiery crest on the crown of your head the only light. To be completely content with such a world order—everything in its place, nothing superfluous, and nothing to compare it to...'