Torment

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>An eta is less than human. Something that lies cheats and steals will never have the honor of</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>bonding with a dragon. It shouldn't even exist.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Born into the eta class Mei accepts the fact that at any moment her life could be over for</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>something as simple as being caught stealing food. As long as she can keep her sickly father</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>alive she's satisfied with her lot in life. All of that changes the day her father informs her that he</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>stashed away money so she has a chance to secure an apprenticeship with a dragon. Reluctant to</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>leave she honors her father's wishes for her and goes to the selection. Then to the other recruits'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>dismay one of the elite shodragons bonds with her. Horrified she discovers that shodragon</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>riders are not allowed to leave the fortress during training for three years. If Mei stays she may</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>never see her father again but if she leaves she will face execution for desertion and will have</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>wasted her father's one hope to see her free from their impoverished life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>She is trapped in a world that doesn't want her by her loyalty to her father's dream. Mei must</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>accept her new duty as a shodragon rider to fight the monsters that come when the rains fall to</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>feast on human flesh. Faced with constant mental and physical abuse from those who should be</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>her mentors and allies she struggles to find her own worthiness.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When her father unexpectedly disappears she must make a choice: to respect her father's last</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>wish or to save her only family. Mei didn't get to choose what class she was born into but she</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>may get to choose how she dies.</span></p>