Prologue

They had almost sent her son to the mines when she discovered there were others like her.

Families coerced into giving up their children for minor grievances over unjust laws. 

To add insult to injury, one of the enforcers came by her work and made it clear they had no consideration for people like her as actual people -- rather, they saw her as something to toy with, a distraction, entertainment.

Regardless of the cost to their lives. Their whole lives. The lives of her children.

She had always known this was a caste system. Although those in power would always deny any such thing. But now she realized it was way worse than she thought. 

The reality is that there were many who knew, folks on the edges of the city who experienced it firsthand. Sometimes you could see them protesting, signs held high that showed messages of how unjust everything was, how many lives wasted. 

Underground, there was a revolution building. Soon she would learn so much more than she ever thought possible for one life. Critical knowledge that would matter for so many others that would come after.

Because this was only the beginning. 

And they were legion.

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Prologue to a new world undefined.

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