chalkandbeanies
The caste system was never so complicated. Reality takes a turn for the exit.
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In a world where no one cares, a child is born and raised with the rest. People serve no purpose but to be tested and prodded until they die, and Cara's no different, not even to herself... it's not brainwashing if you don't know it exists.
Another world, one much less bleak, has a spitfire of a princess. Viviana hates her role - the parties, the backstabbing politics. She'd do anything to get away - even break into a forbidden alchemical laboratory on the third floor.
The consequences are explosive.