Infinity Worlds Novels & Stories

But sovereignty, I had learned, was not the end of the struggle—it was merely a different kind of war. I sat in the High Council Chamber, the walls of which were grown from the same silver-barked oak as the forest. Before me lay a map of the known world, now vastly expanded. Beyond our borders, the news of our "Infinity Energy" had traveled to the Great Empires across the sea. They didn't see a sanctuary; they saw a battery.