Iron Flame (The Empyrean Book Series)

“In this, the 628th year of our Unification, it is hereby recorded that Aretia has been burned by dragon in accordance with the Treaty ending the separatist movement. Those who fled, survived, and those who did not remain entombed in her ruins. —P UBLIC N OTICE 628.85 TRANSCRIBED BY C ERELLA N IELWART R evolution tastes oddly…sweet. I stare at my older brother across a scarred wooden table in the enormous, busy kitchen of the fortress of Aretia and chew the honeyed biscuit he put on my plate.”