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Thomas Cale is one of a number of young acolytes who have been inducted into the ascetic lifestyle of the Redeemers from the age of seven, knowing little of the world outside other than that which has been revealed to them and beaten into them by the brutal religious sect who represent the One True Faith and uphold it against the heathen Antagonists in the East. All is not as it seems however. Cale knows he has special intelligence and fighting skills and is consequently being treated differently from the others, as if groomed for a role in what appears to be a looming grand battle against the Antagonists, but he knows what he is being told cannot be trusted.  The discovery of women in a secret part of the Sanctuary, used for unknown purposes - certainly unknown to the boys who have never seen a woman before - and put to use in disturbing practices convinces Cale to make his escape with two of the other boys and the young girl they have rescued. What lies outside the Sanctuary - a ...