In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, talyn is a soldier, one of thousands trained from childhood to protect her country from the monarchist eastil, who would take away the personal freed...In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, talyn is a soldier, one of thousands trained from childhood to protect her country from the monarchist eastil, who would take away the personal freedoms of the tonk. Talyn long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle.