"One Nation. One Order. One Future." Eighteen years after the Rebellion failed, the Republic built a system that believed in order, and the Tainted are simply the price of it. Some words are not meant to heal. Some words are meant to start wars, and unity can only be staged for so long. Especially when a dangerous heir, the last person that should be trusted, begins watching Briar, the Tainted herself, a little too closely. Some flames survive beneath the ice.