The Familiar Society

The town of Penbrook is living in a lie. Truth is death. The people are guarded and cared for by dragon sentinels. If a sentinel collapses on the job, they are dragged out by faceless red drones and never seen again. With the civilians, glitches are removed and deviants are silenced. Brin is a young schoolteacher who was tasked with raising the next sentinel after the previous one's collapse. It is Brin's sacred duty to teach the dragon about its role and to prevent the young creature from glitching or deviating, just as she has taught the town's children. What she doesn't know is that the Familiar Society is directly responsible for the collapse of every sentinel before, and a higher power is pulling the strings.