Cutlass

Song Hei was a mistake, and that was what she’d grown up hearing.

Weak. Unable to control her powers. Useless. At sixteen, it was blatantly obvious that she wouldn’t be passing the test, which meant she’d be marked as a failure. And just like the other four families, the Song family dealt with mistakes and failures the same way: they disposed of them.

Hei wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or not when a boy showed up at her door three days before said test, bedraggled, beaten and begging for her help. And not even ten minutes later (after she had agreed to help him, no less), he was holding a cutlass to and acting like a completely different person.   

Wanted pirate. Supposedly missing from the clash with the Lu family weeks