We'd grown up the best of friends, living right beside each other until we were 14. We'd spent everyday together, in school on in some field or a tree just playing. We were close as any two people could be. We didn't live in a rich town, there were only a few shops within the area and we had never left, but we got the papers, telling stories of grand parties of which the rich people would attend. They would wear large poofy dresses and gold jewlery and the men suits of all colours, depending on the theme of the ball. Him and I would talk about it, about how one day we would attend one of those parties in the most glamorous of clothing. We would have the time of our lives, and the next week we would go to another and another and so on forever. I wish we could've gone to one of those balls in the same mood. One day, a war broke out between two of the nearby kingdoms. They both vowed to destroy the other and all of its inhabitants. Our small town, and many others, were caught in the crossfire, being told to evacuate if we didn't want to die. Many of the people were told to go to the kindgom of Keeger. The rest were invited to the kingdom of Rayne. Him and I were sent off to different kingdoms, holding different ideologies, foods, lifestyles and people. I was sure I would never see him again. Until

You've heard of the classic trolley problem, but what if the choice wasn't about the quantity of lives you can save? What if you could trade the life of someone deemed worthless to society for someone society praises? After a tragic incident leaves military personnel Vanta and Atlas with advanced prosthetics made by the nation's leading healthcare corporation, they come across a small group of vigilantes who warn them of the shaky ethics behind the company's practices. Joining the group, the two fight to protect the innocent lives being targeted, but this proves to be a much more difficult task than they could have ever anticipated.

Nox is a 16 year old girl trapped in an organization built to raise "perfect people" with intentions of selling the best of them off to work for the rich. Being one of these chosen people is a highly esteemed achievement, and in order to produce individuals who are above the rest, the organization is filled with strict rules. Break them, and you'll be sent to the Outside, a barren wasteland where all who've been exiled there have allegedly died of hunger, thirst, or were killed by rogue "Outsiders". When a new rule pushes her limits too far, Nox is forced to make a choice: lose the person she cares about most, or be exiled to the Outside to fend for herself.