Excerpt from The Journey

Book One : The Council,

  A video image appears, showing a young
woman with shining golden blonde hair
pulled back tightly into a ponytail,
evidently alone in the room.
Even in the grainy picture, the girl is very 

beautiful with strikingly bright green eyes
and high, arched eyebrows. Her nose is
slightly crooked, the result of it being
broken by the butt-end of a Council
 soldier’s rifle several cycles ago.