Lives of Bitter Rain

<p><b>LIVES OF BITTER RAIN is a novella in Adrian Tchaikovsky''s award-winning Tyrant Philosopher series. It is a prequel to the third novel in the sequence, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH.</b><br><br><b>City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ¿Perfection¿ and ¿Correctness¿ to an imperfect world. </b><b>But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch Outreach ¿ the rain before the storm. </b><br><br>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, for urging the oppressed to overthrow the bloody-handed priests, evil necromancers and greedy despots that subjugate them.<br><br>Angilly, twelve-years-old, a child of Pal soldiers stationed in occupied Jarokir, does not know it yet, but a sequence of accidents and questionable life choices will lead her to Outreach. As she travels from Jarrokir to Bracinta, Cazarkand, Le