A historical fiction web serial written by Æ Firestone. Brief note from the author:  This story is intended for mature and intelligent readers. Sensitive people should stay away and go back to their "safe space" ؟ In the wrong place, at the wrong time; a young boy finds himself lost in a foreign land while caught between a geopolitical war with major European empires.   July 19, 1854, 8:45 PM O’ lonely, Prince Niko, a member of the house of Dadiani. A Mingrelian boy at 14 years of age with long curly hair that is dark as night, his eyes were brown like sand and had pale skin that is white as snow. 5 So, bored and tired of his luxurious life being with the         privileged, crooked politicians and wealthy aristocrats. He and his family were in Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital of the Russian Empire. They were to a royal ball in The Winter Palace, 10 hosted by the Tsar Nicolas the First himself. In the Nicolas Hall, everyone from the empire was there, from aristoc