Yesterday I was an ordinary student of the Academy. Today I’ve got an alien symbiote instead of my spine, and a sarcastic AI in my head knows a thousand ways to upgrade my body. But half of them are illegal, and the other half are banned in all religions at once… I jump like an acrobat, tear through the Gifted like paper, and snap the Great Unsolvable Equations faster than I can pop open a beer. I see strange dreams where I’m not me, but someone ancient and powerful. Like our dean after the third cup of coffee. The aristocrats are sharpening their teeth for my backbone. A vigilant beauty from the student council burns holes in me with her gaze—like I’m either insane or her future boyfriend… Earlier, I wanted to survive on a scholarship. Now I just want to survive…