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    Severed: Starwalkers Serial, #1
    Severed: Starwalkers Serial, #1
    Severed: Starwalkers Serial, #1
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    Severed: Starwalkers Serial, #1

    By Julia Crane and Lizzy Ford

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    WINNER OF THE 2014 UTOPYA AWARDS FOR BEST SERIAL NOVEL

    Two sisters with special gifts and an unbreakable bond ...

    Cyena and Tyana were born to powerful parents who are among the ruling class on their planet. Their lives are pampered but isolated, constricted to the city walls in which they were born.

    Fun loving with a rare but powerful mind power, Tyana is accustomed to being treated like a princess and using her influence to get anything she wants – including protecting her sister from the elders and students who look down on her. The opposite of Tyana in most ways, Cyena’s second-class mind skills make others view her as a blemish on the family bloodline. No one but her sister believes in her.

    They don’t know that a war is brewing, until it erupts. A class war tears their perfect world a part, leaving them helpless, alone and worse –severed from one another.

    Each girl will risk her life to find the other, and each will be challenged to hone her powers in order to survive environments unlike any they’ve ever experienced.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLizzy Ford
    Release dateJan 30, 2015
    ISBN9781507054345
    Severed: Starwalkers Serial, #1
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    Julia Crane

    Julia Crane dreamt of elves and teen androids long before she captured them and put them on paper. She's written and released over fifteen young adult and new adult titles over the past two and a half years. From science fiction adventures to succubus, Julia's fresh voice is easy to read and imaginative. Widely known for her Keegan's Chronicles series and IFICS series, and she has hit numerous best selling list on Amazon.

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      Severed - Julia Crane

      Chapter One: Cyena

      Chapter Two: Tyana

      Chapter Three: Cyena

      Chapter Four: Tyana

      Chapter Five: Cyena

      Chapter Six: Tyana

      Severed

      (#1, Starwalkers Serials)

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      By Lizzy Ford & Julia Crane

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      Published by Guerrilla Wordfare and Valknut Press

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      Cover design by Eden Crane, Eden Crane Design

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      Epub Edition

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      Severed copyright ©2014 by Lizzy Ford and Julia Crane http://www.GuerrillaWordfare.com/

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      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

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      Any references to historical events; to real people, living or dead; or to real locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.

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      Chapter One: Cyena

      Time for my daily humiliation. Cyena went to the head of her class, dreading what happened next, like she did every day. The rest of the students were seated cross-legged on the cool, translucent crystal slab surrounding a water fountain at the prestigious Academy of the Mind, where students like her learned how to master and hone their inherited psychic skills. It was the middle of the day, and the sun was bright above. The sky glowed pale green that would fade to dark teal with sunset.

      She took a deep breath and closed her eyes to focus her thoughts.

      As a Relayer, she was psychically open to telepathic messages passed among the messenger service of her society. She also retained excellent hearing, enhanced by her psychic ability. It was this skill that picked up the snarky comment by one of her classmates.

      Not just a Relayer but a weak one at that.

      Cyena opened her eyes and found the speaker. It was Ylana, the daughter of one of the two Starwalkers that lived on the planet. Starwalkers were the most revered members of the Lemurrian society, the key to commerce – and wealth – and their families were considered the ruling class.

      If anyone but her said something …

      Cyena sighed. The offspring of Starwalkers were off-limits to everything, including discipline at school. This particular Starwalker’s offspring knew she was permitted to do exactly as she pleased, for no one would dare incur the disapproval of her father.

      Focus, Cyena, the Lemurrian elder teaching her class urged. Maybe today is the day your power will manifest itself.

      Probably not. Cyena tried to focus. The messages she was supposed to be receiving and relaying were like the whispers of ghosts – too faint and faded for her to make out.

      She has serving class written all over her, Ylana said to the girl seated beside her. They both laughed.

      I am the daughter of the Mindwalker Eran, the most honorable Mindwalker on this side of the planet and the sister of Tyana, the next Starwalker, Cyena mumbled under her breath. She didn’t dare say the words too loudly – yet. But when her sister became the next Starwalker, Cyena was going to give the minniwig badmouthing her a piece of her mind.

      Cyena glanced at their elder, knowing he wasn’t going to help. He didn’t, and she gave up trying to hear any messages telepathically communicated by any of the hundreds of other Relayers located around the planet.

      At least Ylana is the ugliest girl on the planet. It wasn’t much, but it made Cyena feel a little better. Ylana was tall and gawky with dark hair and pale skin. It wasn’t the pretty kind of pale skin that Cyena’s sister had. No, Ylana always looked ill, and her features were so close together, Cyena didn’t know how she smiled without her nose getting stuck on her forehead.

      Envisioning Ylana’s nose on her forehead was the only revenge Cyena would get on the girl this day. Pleased with herself, even if her psychic skill hadn’t worked today at all, she waded through the seated students whose colorful robes marked their families. Each wore tiny pops of color at their collars – known as pins – that identified their psychic ability.

      Cyena’s robes were vibrant blue, the color of her sister’s eyes, and she was the only known Lemurrian ever to have two pins. She fingered her pins, trying to convince herself she didn’t deserve to be in the serving class like Ylana always claimed.

      Unfortunately, neither skill was well regarded among the elite class into which she was born. If her power ever decided to cooperate with her, she’d become a Relayer and also a Wallwalker, someone who could walk through walls and anything else solid.

      Both skills were considered lower class. If she had been born to any other family, she would’ve been shipped off to the serving class training academy. Only her parents’ influence and honor – and the revelation her sister was identified as a Starwalker by routine childhood genetic testing – made the other elite overlook her curses.

      We are adjourned for the day, the elder announced. May your minds stay sharp, the Lemurrian bloodlines pure and the sun bright.

      Cyena joined the other students in mumbling the words that formed the common greeting and farewell then rose. She started away, discouraged after yet another day of not being able to tap into her psychic ability.

      Cyena! someone behind her called.

      She turned. The young man who ran up to her was a year or so older than her, in his final year at the Academy, and from another elite family. He had dark hair and eyes. Handsome and tall, he wore an amber robe and a pin that marked him as a Teleporter in training.

      Hi, Welon, she said, brightening.

      Hi.

      The quiet between them was awkward as a result of a recent pairing contract negotiation between

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