They promised peace. All it cost was your voice.Elan Vey is twenty-one and has just ended human misunderstanding. Merge links every mind on earth, and within twelve hours spoken language drops by forty-two per cent. Nobody is forced. It simply becomes easier not to speak.Then something begins echoing inside the system that nobody wrote. Fragments of scripture. A name the code doesn't recognise. A Voice.Elan built a tower out of thought itself. He is about to find out what happens when it's answered.A modern retelling of Babel and Pentecost. The tower falls. Then the tongues come back.Written to be readScattered is for readers of twelve and up who find most books at that age hard going. Short chapters, direct sentences, and a story that moves, without talking down to anyone or thinning out what it has to say.If you know a teenager who has stopped reading, this was written for them.From the series Awakening a Generation of Kings.
They promised peace. All it cost was your voice.Elan Vey is twenty-one and has just ended human misunderstanding. Merge links every mind on earth, and within twelve hours spoken language drops by forty-two per cent. Nobody is forced. It simply becomes easier not to speak.Then something begins echoing inside the system that nobody wrote. Fragments of scripture. A name the code doesn't recognise. A Voice.Elan built a tower out of thought itself. He is about to find out what happens when it's answered.A modern retelling of Babel and Pentecost. The tower falls. Then the tongues come back.Written to be readScattered is for readers of twelve and up who find most books at that age hard going. Short chapters, direct sentences, and a story that moves, without talking down to anyone or thinning out what it has to say.If you know a teenager who has stopped reading, this was written for them.From the series Awakening a Generation of Kings.
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