Misplaced Soul
Ren is born a misplaced and ancient soul, an Aquilian who can remember tiny pieces of his lives on other worlds. Taken from his parents as a child, he becomes a member of a specific caste within their society, the Annukai, and grows up surrounded by people like him, including Aliasei, the younger sister of their Queen. He is a mere child when the Mihari arrive and take over the planet. Forced into hiding and charged with protecting the princess, his caste round up as many survivors as they can and patiently look for a way to escape their world.
Captured, Ren finds himself in a prison camp where castes have been forgotten. Each day is a struggle for survival until fate gives him a helping hand. While many of his companions die, Ren is able to steal a Mihari ship and, though his clan have long since vanished into hiding, he is able to rescue twenty souls and flee the planet. However the ship is damaged, most of the souls onboard wounded and their oxygen processors destroyed.
Ren fully expects to die, lost and adrift in space – but free. To his surprise, he wakes on Mnemosyne but he was the only survivor of a doomed voyage. Alone on an alien planet, he finds a kindred soul in his saviour Bryant, one of the Ashterai who lives amongst the mortals of the Union. Encouraged and in awe of what the Union represents, Ren embarks on a career as a diplomat, determined to make a difference.
Time passes and Ren becomes a Councillor of the Union and Ambassador to Earth. Now Joined to a fellow Aquilian refugee, he has never forgotten his true home and his people so when the Mihari arrive on Mnemosyne he senses something is about to change forever … he was there at the beginning of his world’s occupation and he will be instrumental in its end.