The Starborn
By Viola Grace
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Born to a star, Wiali faced fifteen hundred years of stasis followed by ten years of work in the Citadel. While frozen, the entire Archive of the Alliance ran through her mind, her education was controlled by her whims.
When her father went nova, she was finally and definitely alone until the moment Suek’s last Avatar came to tell her she was transferred from Citadel Aria to Citadel Lowel, the adjunct to Sector Guard Base Udell.
Braenar knew that Suek had chosen him for Wiali, but the mechanism by which they would meet again was a mystery until she walked into his life with a group of students trailing behind her. From that moment on, he kept tabs on her until the day he could tell her that she was stuck working with him in deadly and dangerous situations.
Planets, power and infinite peril...What girl doesn’t want that sort of thing in her life?
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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The Starborn - Viola Grace
Powerful, alone and far from her family, Wia has found a path of her own but she is surprised to find it leading her to the arms of an Avatar.
Born to a star, Wiali faced fifteen hundred years of stasis followed by ten years of work in the Citadel. While frozen, the entire Archive of the Alliance ran through her mind, her education was controlled by her whims.
When her father went nova, she was finally and definitely alone until the moment Suek’s last Avatar came to tell her she was transferred from Citadel Aria to Citadel Lowel, the adjunct to Sector Guard Base Udell.
Braenar knew that Suek had chosen him for Wiali, but the mechanism by which they would meet again was a mystery until she walked into his life with a group of students trailing behind her. From that moment on, he kept tabs on her until the day he could tell her that she was stuck working with him in deadly and dangerous situations.
Planets, power and infinite peril…What girl doesn’t want that sort of thing in her life?
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The Starborn
Copyright © 2012 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-77111-417-2
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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The Starborn
Tales of the Citadel book 14
By
Viola Grace
Chapter One
Wiali smiled as she took her students through the dig site on Halash. This is the last city of the Hirn Empire. They scattered from here, out to the stars.
The professor running the dig came up and took charge of the group, directing them through the site and into the place they would work and learn. They had less than a year to absorb every detail of the cities and the dead civilization before the sun completed its cycle and went nova.
Wiali wandered through the halls of her home and touched the walls. She hadn’t been back on Halash since the day her father’s newest Avatar had tucked her into the stasis chamber and sent her off to the next star system.
Fifteen hundred years of Alliance information, data and current events had run through her skull until the day Suek’s Avatar, Sovalli, woke her with a smile and told her that she was entering the Citadel.
Wiali walked through what had been her family home, watching the archaeological crew documenting everything and taking the images of her mother and father, packing them away for the Alliance Archive.
May I help you, miss?
One of the team members spoke before he looked at her face.
Wia looked at him with a bland expression, knowing that he was taking in the mask colouration on her face and comparing it to the portrait that he had just wrapped and stored in a crate. I just came back to see my home before my father burns up and scorches everything in his path.
A voice behind her made her smile. I am not going so easily into the end, Wia. Don’t be so flippant, this is the end of a solar system.
Wia turned with joy surging in her chest, and she faced a man she did not recognise. She knew the brilliant purple swirl in his eyes, but the body her father was using as his Avatar was unknown to her. Father?
He extended his arms and the purple became solid.
Wia ran to him and embraced him. How many since Danyer is he?
He is the second. When Danyer’s body died, Sovalli stepped in to help ship you off for safety, and he remained with me until last year when Braenar offered himself for my last days.
Suek’s voice was the same.
If Wia closed her eyes and ignored the intriguing scent of the man she embraced, she could almost feel her father, Danyer-Suek. Her mother’s life had been bound to Danyer, so when she lost one parent, the other followed within a week. At the age of fourteen, it had been quite a blow. Suek’s replacement Avatar was a man named Sovalli, and he had gently explained what was about to happen before Sovalli-Suek tucked her in the stasis chamber