"The people of the Seven Demesnes live in unease. Every generation, seven sons are born to rule their seven walled cities. Without them, mankind is fated to fall."
"Now, something is killing them before they can be born."
When Iminique Demascus senses a nameless evil striking at the unborn royal children, she has to make a choice. A noblewoman and a healer in a world where aristocrats and mages belong to different castes, she is forbidden by her father to ever heal. Breaking his dictate, she saves a single girl child.
No one thanks her. Neither the child's parents nor the people...
"The people of the Seven Demesnes live in unease. Every generation, seven sons are born to rule their seven walled cities. Without them, mankind is...
*Serycia Fade, a slave marked for death...* I run into the most impoverished level of our walled city, where poisons and toxins swirl in oily black puddles on the streets, and people are gathering in a square in line for food. But they can't be here. I scream at them to get out, get away. And the world explodes. *Soren Lost, a Level 1 nonentity...* She breaks into my life like a shard of sunlight shining in a squalid world just before the square explodes. Staggering out of the rubble, she offers me a pill that will give me a month of health in exchange for me getting her back out of Level 1....
*Serycia Fade, a slave marked for death...* I run into the most impoverished level of our walled city, where poisons and toxins swirl in oily black pu...
