Description
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring 'Perfection' and 'Correctness' to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch Outreach — the rain before the storm.
Outreach is that part of the Pal machine responsible for diplomacy — converting enemies into friends, achieving through words what an army of five thousand could not, and urging the oppressed to overthrow the bloody-handed priests, evil necromancers, and greedy despots that subjugate them.
Angilly, twelve years old and the child of Pal soldiers stationed in occupied Jarokir, does not yet know that a sequence of accidents and questionable life choices will lead her to Outreach. As she travels from Jarokir to Bracinta, Cazarkand, Lemas, the Holy Regalate of Stouk, and finally Usmai, she'll learn that the price of her nation's success is paid in compromise and lost chances, and that the falling rain will always be bitter.