This Cruel Fate

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>One thousand years into human rule Xolia is a teenage leader in the rebellion to free variants a group of people that can control elements and have unnaturally quick healing abilities from forced military service.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Seven years later Xolia is a little older and a little haunted by the ghosts of her past. The freedom and utopia she dreamt of remain frustratingly out of reach and the country she calls home still has deep prejudices despite the war.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Once she's lost sight of her purpose she is offered a life-changing job and an old flame from her past re-enters her life promising a tantalizing future. Torn between the simplicity of a quiet life and the allure of new possibilities Xolia has to question what she truly wants.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>As she sinks into a world where alliances and talk are cheap and everyone has their own agendas Xolia must contend with the consequences of her choices and who she is destined to become in the face of a country that refuses to relinquish its grip on the past.</span></p>