Voidtouched

Every student at the Kaelmund Lyceum dreams of bonding with a magnificent beast—a fire salamander, a griffon, a thundercat—and wielding the elemental magic that comes with it. Niall Fenmore, a scholarship miner's son, bonds with something else entirely: a sleek, eyeless creature that grants him nothing. No fire. No wind. No lightning. Only silence. But silence, Niall will learn, has a hunger of its own—and the Confederacy's greatest minds are already debating whether to destroy his beast before history repeats itself.