Pawns in an endless war, scribes are feared and worshipped, valued and exploited, prized and hunted. But there is only one whose powers can determine the fate of the world . . . Born into the ruins of Rzolka's brutal civil unrest, Anna has never known peace. Here, in her remote village--a wasteland smoldering in the shadows of outlying foreign armies--being imbued with the magic of the scribes has made her future all the more...