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    Summary

    A story of star-crossed love at its gorydamn finest.
    Everyone has secrets. Some choose to take them to the grave. Others don't have that much of a choice.
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    The year is 735 PCE.

    Minnow, a Brown living in the heart of Agea's impoverished lowColor district, strikes a last-resort employment opportunity at Eagle Rest, where she is forced to adjust to a new way of life while coping with loss. Consolation comes from a very unexpected place, leaving her wondering if anything is ever really as it seems at first glance. Karnus, meanwhile, thinks like a Gold; he doesn't realize he's been taking his life for granted, until he meets someone who just knows how to ask the right questions.

    Bottom line, you can't predict who makes your heart skip.
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    *This is not a story with a happy ending. Covering pre-Red Rising and into Golden Son. That one quote was too bloodydamn sage for there not to be a backstory, so I'm writing one.

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