Violet: Aviana

Suddenly, she was standing on a cliff of black volcanic rock, gasping. Above her was not a dome, but an endless, terrifying, beautiful expanse of deepening blue. And at the edge of that blue, a crack of molten gold.

She lived in Veridian, a city buried a mile beneath the Atlantic, where the "sun" was a holographic projection on the dome ceiling—a pale, clinical imitation that shifted from amber to gray on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Her name, Aviana, meant "bird," which her mother had thought was a cruel joke in a world without sky. aviana violet

Kael knelt beside her. "Now, Aviana Violet, we show the others how to climb." Suddenly, she was standing on a cliff of

Then she saw them.

Suddenly, she was standing on a cliff of black volcanic rock, gasping. Above her was not a dome, but an endless, terrifying, beautiful expanse of deepening blue. And at the edge of that blue, a crack of molten gold.

She lived in Veridian, a city buried a mile beneath the Atlantic, where the "sun" was a holographic projection on the dome ceiling—a pale, clinical imitation that shifted from amber to gray on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Her name, Aviana, meant "bird," which her mother had thought was a cruel joke in a world without sky.

Kael knelt beside her. "Now, Aviana Violet, we show the others how to climb."

Then she saw them.