Hrain is a fantasy / sci-fi mashup adventure story with an alien main character. This is a stand-alone story that is a tie in to my main story Chronicles of the StarFighters (also on Royal Road).

Relevant tags: Young Adult, Alien Lead, Galactic Empire, Magic / Telepathy.

Synopsis:

Before first contact with humanity, Sledgim was a forgotten world: a secret planet not on any star chart of the Maurian Empire, hidden in a wrinkle of spacetime. To an unfortunate few, this frozen rock is home.Those born on the ice in the shadow of the split mountain know nothing of the stars, of spacecraft, or of the wars that had ravaged the Empire over the last thousand years. As the son of poor anitheum miners, all Hrain had to look forward to was a life of labor and an early death.Then, the voices came.When Leader Paryah learns that a young boy from Adula can read minds, Hrain finds himself on the run and fighting for his life. In this stand-alone novel set in the StarFighter Universe, follow young Hrain as he discovers the awesome power of the Gift of Ramas and leaves a mark on the Empire that will not soon be forgotten.