`The first time I was photographed was when I was little, at Christmas. Come on, our father shouted, let's take a picture, a keepsake, here outside the hospital. A street photographer with a tripod appeared in front of us. We posed. It was windy. My mother, me, our father with my little brother in his arms. My brother had died half an hour before and they handed him to us. He held him upright in his arms, his little legs dangling, supporting his head with one hand from behind. We had closed his eyes. I didn't come out well in the photo because I was cold. On the bus, the conductor didn't notice anything. We even got a ticket for my brother.` Myrtali (pseudonym) at 15, with a brief stint at Madame Pandaisia's brothel and with two murders that left no trace on her, understood a lot, and early, about the world, which is why she chose to create her own reality. She even descended to Hades, but she didn't realize it. Upon returning, she understood that it was better not to continue as an existing person, but to become a creature of a novel and imagination. Because that way she would avoid two annoying problems: death and life. The `Dark Guide` follows his entirely personal reality. Just like every person does. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]