Aberrant Egress

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a young boy camping in the foothills of the West Wall Giem Kyler stumbles across a wonderfully bizarre creature</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>thought not to exist within the miles high confines of the Basin crater. Curiosity turns this first encounter bloody</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>leaving the eleven year old with a scar and a lingering desire to know...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seven years later this same curiosity lands him in a pinch of trouble with the kinds of people his Father</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>wouldn't be real keen on and he is persuaded into a trip back up those crumbling hills in search of answers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With his best friend Satchel at his side - always dependable ever the cynic - Giem returns. On the back of happenstance</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and less-than-stellar decision making he incredibly uncovers the answer discovers a truth.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And this truth is complicated. Dangerous even. What he finds is far more than an ecological oddity:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the dragon hatchling's very existence here in the fringes of the Basin thrusts the trio center stage of an ideological struggle between</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>superpowers half a world away. Who she is threatens to turn a cold war very very hot.</span></p>