Rise
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MatureOngoing1h 57m
Last published Mon, Feb 1, 2021
When the world falls apart, what do you do?
If all you've ever known is suddenly ripped away from you, what do you do?
You find out everything you thought you knew about yourself and the world around you was a lie, what do you do?
Do you conform? Do you cower? Or do you rise?
Aurora Holloway has only ever known a world defined by an ability that is marked into you on your eighteenth birthday. So when she is marked in a sector away from all of her friends and family she must quickly conform to her new society or face the consequences.
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