A Dance In My Shadows
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Verena is in a world where the rules bend towards those who can pay the most. People are bought and sold in the masses at the set age of eight years. Most people are bought to be average civilians with jobs that suite their talents, but there are some that are bought for a higher reason.
Verena was branded with an X on the back of her neck and on her eighteenth birthday finds the reason for her existence.... To be A Silent One.
Together with her Master she discovers the shadows within herself and her world.
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