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Five days sailing in a storm that didn't exist six days ago. Chasing an impossible light in a sea of endless sky.                                                                                                              

Vincent Locklear and Mercy Larkin have been set adrift. Their lives upturned, Vincent stripped of his captaincy, and newly purposeless, the pair now sail through a storm. Their course takes them five days into a storm that is less than six days old, birthed by a flash of light that, for just a moment, drowned out the sun. 

Mercy Larkin has lived a lifetime in someone else's world. Taken from her people, raised in indentured servitude, and finding her footing in Volante's navy, having the opportunity to change the course of her life is strange and terrifying. But she has chosen to return to the people who forswore her, and reconcile with the reason she chose her surname Larkin.

Vincent Locklear has never managed to belong to the people he lives alongside. A child of the Monastery; a coven of secretive custodians of old science, he was cast out years ago to make his own way. Despite being an outsider and forced to keep his childhood a secret, he rose to become a ship captain, only to be cast out again.

But what these two will find in the darkness of the storm, will set their lives on a course both demanding and unalterable. To find their way as children of unkindness.All Rights Reserved

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The Fate of Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite)

1915. The world war is raging. Mathias Booker, a young soldier of 22 years old, participates in a naval battle against the German navy. But during the battle, the boat is destroyed, but Mathias manages to survive the sinking. He arrives on a rocky island lost in the middle of the ocean, where is located a strange and abandoned lighthouse. At the top, he finds a strange cabin with a seat. When he enters, he is trapped and catapulted into the sky, and arrives in a floating city above the clouds, Columbia. Shortly after his arrival, he was captured and imprisoned under the orders of the prophet Zachary Comstock, who seems to reign over this place. While he should be executed, Mathias is saved by Elizabeth Comstock, a beautiful young woman, and the daughter of Zachary. Together, Elizabeth and Mathias become fugitives and have to escape the forces that are chasing them, also with the presence of Songbird, a strange giant robotic bird that only Elizabeth seems able to control, besides the appearance of Robert and Rosalind Lutece, a mysterious duo of scientists who seem to have a link with the town of Columbia. But what began as a simple escape turns into a mission to save the world when Elizabeth and Mathias discover the terrifying secrets hidden in Columbia and the real plan of the prophet. By helping mutually, a friendship born between Mathias and Elizabeth, and gradually turns into something more sincere and strong. Elizabeth and Mathias can they succeed in thwarting the mysterious plot that could destroy the world already ravaged by war? What secrets are they about to discover?