Though Alizhan is faceblind, unable to read or interpret facial expressions, she reads the minds of everyone around her, using her power to steal secrets from Iriyat’s rivals. Raised in secrecy, Alizhan both causes and experiences pain whenever she touches anyone other than her foster-mother, the powerful Iriyat. When a chance encounter with Alizhan, an enigmatic runaway, gives Ev the chance to act like a hero, she takes it, forming a curious friendship with the silent girl by passing her stolen thornfruit. So Ev, the daughter of a thornfruit seller, has always believed but Ev has a passion for stories. Though the occasional strange child is branded Unbalanced and abandoned for the priests of the Balance to raise, actual magic exists only in stories. In the city of Laalvur, magic is viewed as nothing more than superstition.
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