It's been 50 years since The Sect took over the broken fragments of Gedeon the ancient land in which people, both human and magick, once called home. Since it's rise to power the sect has split the world into 8 categories of people.
Strife for the ones who fight in wars,
Thanatos the ones who speak to the dead,
Auryon, the ones forever sworn to chastity
Argider, the ones who tell the future
Elymas, the ones who cast magick
Annona, the ones who grow the crops
Nirvelli for the ones who work at sea,
Ethelind the wise who build the cities.
Each person is born into a sector and does in them. You can't change fate. Ethelind, and Strife rule over all the sects. The other sectors are looked down upon, infurior to the others, impure and vile.
Jaxson was born into Elymas and was supposed to die in Elymas. That is until he met the the mysterious Axl, a fragment of the old country, of what used to be the land of Gedeon, who proclaimed Jaxson was no ordinary peasant.
I am insufficient. Well, that's not my name obviously, but that's what my family has decided I am.
I'm Julie. I'm 14, about to be 15 years old. I have a twin sister, Jamie. Jamie is an angel. Perfect at everything, and can do no wrong. At least in my family's eyes. And I? I am not perfect. I am a disappointment. Though they've never said that to me outright, I know that's what they truly think.
The apparent "last straw" was when Jamie fucked up and I took the fall for it. Now, I'm on my way to live with some of my more distant relatives back in Italy. They're supposed to "put me back in my place."
So now I get to go live with 3 Italian Capo's.
Sounds like fun right?
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What happens when Julie gets sent away? And what happens when her relatives receives a girl they had been brought to believe was a troublesome, borderline delinquent teenager, but is actually just a confused, dissociative little girl with a messed up idea of what family really means.
And what happens when Julie comes to realise that the people she was living with, weren't all who they said they were?