Anticipation surrounded Violet Sorrengail’s survival through her initial year at Basgiath War College—a fate even she foresaw. Yet, Threshing merely marked the inception of improbable trials, designed to sift out the feeble-minded, the undeserving, and the unfortunate.
As the genuine training unfolds, Violet contemplates how she’ll endure. It’s not just the relentless and malicious brutality, nor is it solely crafted to push the riders’ pain tolerance to its limits. The new vice commandant intensifies the challenge, making it his personal mission to underscore Violet’s powerlessness—unless she betrays her beloved.
Despite her physically weaker and frailer state compared to others, Violet possesses sharp wits and an indomitable will. She hasn’t forgotten the crucial lesson from Basgiath: Dragon riders forge their own rules.
Yet, sheer determination to survive won’t suffice this time. Violet is privy to the ancient secret concealed for centuries at Basgiath War College, and even the might of dragon fire might prove insufficient to rescue them in the end.
