The Ordainment Trials

This is the story of a girl who must learn to live with a decision she regrets making. It is either learn to live with it or die.

In Episladde, every child, upon turning seventeen, must prove their worth through a series of five trials. If you can survive, you get to claim your rightful place in society. To help ensure survival, the King allows all participants to choose a Guide, to help prepare for the Trials.

Alessia Fearnyr is the youngest child, she has seen both her brother and sister enter the Trials. Her sister became a Scribe, and her brother was killed during his third trial. However, the circumstances surrounding death within the Trials are never disclosed.

Alessia soon finds out the man she's chosen as her Guide is the very same man that got her brother killed all those years ago. She must trust him to not lead her to the same fate.