Mixed Blood

Arabella is living in a world where you can be either royalty or the filth of the Earth. She, luckily, is royalty and very privileged. She goes to a school that, like everything, is split in two, half is luxurious and beautiful for the rich, the other half is practically a shed for the poor. The world is just as it should be, with the poor being sacrificed every two weeks in order to not upset the balance of peasants to royalty.

Hal is a peasant, a telltale sign of peasantry is short names, royals are adorned with long complicated names to show of their wealth. Hal's younger sister Cindy is dying of sickness, Hal is afraid that Cindy will leave him alone, immersed in darkness. Literal darkness. Hal Hogan is blind, useless in this broken society, a cripple. And the sacrifice draft commonly targets the weak and disabled peasants. Sometime Hal wishes that he would be chosen, that he could join his sister.

In the Village of Peasantry rumors spread like wildfire, there is a prophecy, of unknown origin, which says when the blood of a royal mixes with the blood of a peasant the child shall bring down this corrupt kingdom and restore it from its ruin as the rightful leader.