The Apprentice Roy S. Fiction

Tinay is leaving her old life behind along with her family to start her apprenticeship on Os, a water planet. Alone, entering society for the first time, she is confronted with inequality, poverty, violence and must rely on her values, inner strength to try to do what is right. But she questions her parents’ decision to make her a member of the artist caste. She ends up discovering her values do not match those of the queen. She decides that someone must voice out the injustice and speak up. Without thinking of the implications, she, time and again, will jeopardize her safety and those around her to defy the edicts and bring a semblance of what is right back into the world. But when the opportunity to crash in on a ball and openly speak against the queen and her rule, all the while avoiding capture form the imperial guards, comes, Tinay must decide if she is ready to risk it all to do what is right. After all, the queen has never been known to be lenient or forgiving, and now with torture into play, it is no longer child’s play.