A world from which magic is gone. People turned into non-humans. Destroyed civilization and an ordinary man, our contemporary, caught in an alien body by the will of either the gods or a psychic loser. What awaits him? Days in sewers, fear of not waking up in the evening, madness, which every minute erodes consciousness, fading emotions, hatred of the living...If the whole world is against you, change the rules of the game. Find true friends, build a home and make fate take over. Even if not immediately, even if slowly, like a worm, but you must move only forward.T.N.Celesta or Sprouts of Dead World it's Roman Artemyev's novel. The first book of the Dark Mother series.