Finding Freedom
Elliot enjoys an uneventful life in his nation's capital city until a call to war takes all of that away. Dorian has just escaped from a dangerous situation in the city, quickly settling into country life once more, when that same war comes to threaten all the peace he's obtained.
Edyth tends to her ailing mother in another nation's capital, where she quickly learns exactly how awful her people's oppressors truly are. Beatrice lives on the edge of society, embroiled in a resistance that has no hope of succeeding, when a mission behind enemy lines calls everything she thought she knew into question.
Victor has obtained hard-fought isolation in the depths of his nation's jungle. When an acquaintance from the past comes calling, it forces him into the life he thought he'd left behind.
Cast into the unknown, these five strangers will fight to survive until they find one another, but once they have, they'll band together in one of life's greatest struggles: the quest to find true freedom.
Front Matter
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Prequel: Elliot and Dorian
Chapter 1: Me, At the Start
Elliot Elliot had never considered himself less than human. At one point, the concept hadn't e...
Chapter 2: An Unwelcome Intrusion
Dorian "-assemble at their assigned barracks by end of day tomorrow. The chosen color is... r...
Chapter 3: Never Play with High Stakes
Elliot Elliot was packing when Cathrine called him downstairs. Since he was almost finished, ...
Chapter 4: An Intervention
Dorian The world was bread. Dorian breathed in ground oats, dough had turned to crust on his h...
Chapter 5: Denial and Guilt
Elliot His family was dead, gone in the blink of an eye and with the twist of a hand. How was ...
Chapter 6: A Summons
Dorian When Dorian had been a child, Mr. Mahon's house had always fascinated him. In a town of...
Chapter 7: Depression, Anger, and Acceptance
Elliot The corporal of Twelfth Squad, or the Bloody Mongrels as they called themselves, barely...
Chapter 8: A Betrayal
Dorian This was it. Two weeks ago, an announcement had declared war between Escad and Flosar...
Chapter 9: The Battle
Elliot Someone was calling for him. Elliot didn't know how or when his squadmates had learned ...
Chapter 10: An End to My World
Dorian The noises coming from outside the tent were the worst ones Dorian had heard in his lif...