Some days are just BAD. A couple of thousand feet in the air, hanging from eagle talons and bleeding out. Just a typical bad day for a rebellious cat. Meet Dascha, a perfect example of contrariness and smarts. This young Russian Blue is not interested in following the family business, at all! But a moment of inattention leads to danger and pain, and she is left with some hard decisions to make. Will she survive mage attacks, wolves, and, worst of all, her instructors?

Slave or partner? Bond or shackles? Dascha swore that she would never become a slave to a witch, used for energy and reduced to the role of an animated battery. Zhanna never thought that she would have a familiar, since none of the Russian witches seemed to have them. Now Dascha has found her witch and Zhanna has found her familiar. It would be better if either one of them knew what they were doing, but they trust in each other. When Dascha has the chance to get some training, something that no familiar that either of them knows has gotten, she reluctantly leaves her beloved witch for a few days. Little does she know that she will come back with a very different view of what being a familiar really is. And a whole lot of ways to make them the baddest partnership around! The only question is simple. Can Dascha can survive the training?

Home is where they have to take you in. Right? After the drama and danger of her experience at the Familiar Trials, the White Persian, Princess TT is reluctantly heading for home. Dreading the reception that her no longer flawless form will invoke from her perfectionist witch, the cat is unsure of her welcome and frightened beyond measure. Will her Witch surprise her? Or will the rejection that she fears pile more scars on her already battered soul?