Veins of Gold

There are eight Elements. Only one will claim you. Everyone at Terra Nexus is told the same thing on their first night: after three years of training, they will be soldiers. Their Element, and nothing more.

Vertexia Sinclair came to Terra Nexus wanting exactly what every other rookie wants: to be chosen, to earn her place, to give her family something better than what they had. She never expected the brutal trials, the ranking system or the war creeping closer to the border with every outpost that goes dark. She definitely never expected to be someone worth watching.

Senior Sentinel Darius Blackthorne notices anyway.

Relentless, guarded, and the youngest Sentinel to ever earn his rank, Darius trains her like she's the only one in Terra Nexus worth his attention. Pushing her harder than anyone else in her year, watching her like he's waiting for something the rest of the camp can't see coming. He shouldn't want anything else from her. He's her mentor. She's his student. But neither of them can hide what's between them.

The closer Vex gets to Darius, the closer she comes to a truth Terra Nexus has spent generations trying to bury. Because Vex isn't like the others. And when Bearing Day finally comes for her, no one can explain what she truly is.