Volume 1: Pickpocketing Living in secret and stealing to eat is a hard life , but it's all Kuro has ever known. Fear and necessity honed him from a young age into the finest young thief in in the wizard kingdoms. Nobody can hide forever, though, and a run of poor luck lands Kuro in a place where his quick hands and quiet feet count for nothing: Avalon Academy, school of magic. Out of his depth and unable to escape, can Kuro find a place among the other misfits at the school, or will his past return to ruin the one chance he has to leave his life in the shadows?

After years of being a foster girl, Alaska has finally found the perfect family that wants to adopt her. But then she realises that she's being stalked, which leads to her kidnap. She succeeds in running away, but then she finds herself in an unfamiliar place. What is this place? And is she going to find her way back home? [Completed]