Tara thought she was just the teacher in a small settlement on the outskirts of the Empire. Leo thought he was just the bereaved brother of a long dead sister. That's not how they see each other, or how their friends see them. If they don't discover their true stories, however, everyone will suffer. But how can a text, written hundreds of years before their births, provide them with the answers they need? Sometimes the pen is simply more dangerous than the sword. **Update:- My minor chapter restructure turned into introducing new chapters from other POV's including Leo and Ting. It makes the build up far more satisfactory in my mind. Minor changes to other chapters to account for flow.**