That life came to an abrupt end when Eden was seventeen.
Luo ZeLuo Ze — Leader of a Doctors Without Borders team; Eden’s adoptive father and teacher. was killed instantly in an accident, and his death dealt Eden a devastating blow. In the end, she left the East and returned to the Empire where she had been born, continuing her medical career there. Partly, she did so to carry on the work her father had left unfinished. Partly, she hoped that by burying herself in her work, she might dull the grief that remained.
By the age of eighteen, her outstanding contributions to microscopic medicine and emergency care had already earned her a seat on the standing council of the Continental AcademyContinental Academy — Eden sat on its standing council from the age of eighteen.. In a sense, she had taken up the place once occupied by her adoptive father. She now stood at the forefront of medical science, ready to take another step into territory still unknown.
When she was nineteen, an unfamiliar plague began spreading across the southern reaches of the continent.
Once again, Eden set out without hesitation.
What lay ahead?