The Great Pandemonium: The Direction of the Dawning Sun

Captured, branded, and thrown into a cage, Akkali and Teren had been bought a day before their scheduled executions as unwanted merchandise. Their new master was Galenfyr, a popular Oratio of the Empire, and the pair of Enkiri medeis were to become his newest test subjects as he researched the roots and limits of their race's magic with the Empress Consort Herself as his patron.

Now separated from Teren, Akkali had been patiently planning their escape from their master, right down to the finite details of which bottle of his favorite wine would deliver her carefully brewed poison to the guard's stomachs. And she, along with everyone else in the Empire of Haren, had been waiting for months for the ailing Emperor Juriyah IV to finally drop dead so she could put her plans into action and rescue her friend.

What she didn't plan on, however, was the Empress Regent declaring a Grand Melee in the name of the Emperor Infantantes, or that her master's two brothers would bring along their own retinue of unwanted slaves to be sacrificed in the arena for the Empire's bloodsport...