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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Summary The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy,
...At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.AUDI. VIDE. TACE.The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus – what they call Will – to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do. I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family. To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me. And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.
Episode list
Part 1
I navigate the back hallways and arrive at the room the Octavii are given to
Any response I might have made is quelled by the appearance of Matron
And only those in the senatorial pyramids are allowed to use the title
The remaining three men have scrambled away and taken cover behind
OUR FOOTSTEPS ECHO AGAINST THE hewn granite walls of the empty
The increasingly familiar shape of an anchoring point looms as the Transvect
Lanistia pushes back some stray strands of long dark hair that are brushing
Not to mention the ability to split your focus between multiple problems at
LATE AFTERNOON IS PAINTING THE treetops as my carriage rattles its
People start settling back into their seats as the last of the smaller vessels begin
We stare at each other for a full couple of seconds before the spindly man
Veridius begins amiably quizzing Callidus about his study habits over the
The conversations around the large hall are dying down as everyone begins
The next ten minutes pass in monotony as I scrape piles of hay-riddled horse
Ianix is sprinting around the rst corner and heading west before the
One of the other things my father and the Consuls manage is the Academy
I try to vary my progress along the path between bursts of sprinting and brisk
The westerly sea breeze whips raindrops through the tall archways lining the
We spend the next two hours in the unsettling surrounds of the Telimus
We reach the ground and begin walking along the carefully tended gravel
The crimson light lingers once the platform seals to the end of the entry
Anyone in my class who ends up wielding a weapon will be forging a Razor
AFTER DETOURING TO SCOFF A few nerve-settling bites of dinner from
I give a sweeping bow to Eidhin as I join him at the table in the near-empty
THE CATENAN PENCHANT FOR RELIGIOUS holidays has always irked
THE REST OF THE FOURTHS never nd out the cause of the tension
THE TUNNELS ARE PITCH-BLACK ASIDE from the dim light of my
My caution proves wise when a gentle knock pierces my consciousness
The clean air and smell of salt lls my lungs as I wander the cliside path back
MY FIRST FEW WEEKS IN Class Three are harder than I could possibly have
Veridius takes us down to a sheltered cove via a Will elevator in the
We press forward in the direction Aequa indicated for the better part of an
I GET THROUGH FOUR MORE demonstrations before I can take it no
AN OCCASIONAL BLAST OF WIND rips up the hillside as Aequa and I
WAIT
