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Trial
In a dystopian future an unknown catastrophe has destroyed most of civilization as we know it today. What's left of society has been united under a world government; a dictatorship that enforces its laws by utilizing some of the most cruel and inhumane methods imaginable to humankind.
To secure its rule, the world government has created The Trial. The Trial is an event that occurs once every ten years. It could best be described as a method of control. After all, everything is about control, is it not? Immediately before each and every Trial, one boy and one girl are chosen from the outlying cities, in an event which is usually referred to as a choosing.
Once chosen, they are brought to the capital city, which is where their trial, unofficially, begins. There, they are told that they will shortly be taken somewhere else. More specifically, they will be taken to the official starting point of The Trial, which is all the way out in the middle of nowhere. There, they will receive two tasks which they must fulfill. The first task is quite they are tasked with making it back home. Seems easy enough...until you add the second task on top of it. In actuality, the second task is even simpler...so simple, in fact, that it has become second nature to most people left alive in the post-apocalyptic world. That, however, does not necessarily make it any easier. They are tasked with surviving.
To date, nobody has ever succeeded in surviving The Trial. Granted, the rumors say that some have made it close enough to see their homes...but cockiness has this habit of being a person’s final emotion. Of course, there is a first time for everything, and many people believe that The Trial is the same as everything else. Someone has to survive it eventually.
When Roan Cor and Lira Lake are chosen to participate in The Trial, it immediately becomes apparent that they are different from all of the others. They seem to have an innate ability that nobody else in The Trial, or anywhere else, for that matter, possesses; one that until recently was a complete mystery even to them. They share a mind link that allows them to communicate with each other telepathically and empathically over vast distances. As would anybody else, they utilize this ability to survive for as long as possible in The Trial.
What they did not anticipate, however, is the extra information which it begins to grant them. They soon find out that a rebellion is brewing back at home...and, of course, this only serves to amplify their motivation to make it back a thousand times over. Will they ultimately survive The Trial and make it back to their homes? What will become of the rebellion that they have come to believe is in the making? And, most importantly, will they survive, and at what costs?
To secure its rule, the world government has created The Trial. The Trial is an event that occurs once every ten years. It could best be described as a method of control. After all, everything is about control, is it not? Immediately before each and every Trial, one boy and one girl are chosen from the outlying cities, in an event which is usually referred to as a choosing.
Once chosen, they are brought to the capital city, which is where their trial, unofficially, begins. There, they are told that they will shortly be taken somewhere else. More specifically, they will be taken to the official starting point of The Trial, which is all the way out in the middle of nowhere. There, they will receive two tasks which they must fulfill. The first task is quite they are tasked with making it back home. Seems easy enough...until you add the second task on top of it. In actuality, the second task is even simpler...so simple, in fact, that it has become second nature to most people left alive in the post-apocalyptic world. That, however, does not necessarily make it any easier. They are tasked with surviving.
To date, nobody has ever succeeded in surviving The Trial. Granted, the rumors say that some have made it close enough to see their homes...but cockiness has this habit of being a person’s final emotion. Of course, there is a first time for everything, and many people believe that The Trial is the same as everything else. Someone has to survive it eventually.
When Roan Cor and Lira Lake are chosen to participate in The Trial, it immediately becomes apparent that they are different from all of the others. They seem to have an innate ability that nobody else in The Trial, or anywhere else, for that matter, possesses; one that until recently was a complete mystery even to them. They share a mind link that allows them to communicate with each other telepathically and empathically over vast distances. As would anybody else, they utilize this ability to survive for as long as possible in The Trial.
What they did not anticipate, however, is the extra information which it begins to grant them. They soon find out that a rebellion is brewing back at home...and, of course, this only serves to amplify their motivation to make it back a thousand times over. Will they ultimately survive The Trial and make it back to their homes? What will become of the rebellion that they have come to believe is in the making? And, most importantly, will they survive, and at what costs?
290 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 10, 2015
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