Sovereign

Number 332 is living to be sacrificed.

A teen with no name, she'll take part in the Sending alongside nine other orphans after the Festival.

They will be left in the Fields and taken by the Sovereign as gifts, and the town will be blessed with a decade of bountiful harvests - same as the past three centuries.

But after so long, even the town elders begin questioning the decennial Sending and the very existence of the Sovereign.

They've all forgotten about the gray-haired woman who saw everything. The rotten crops. The starvation. The message scrawled in the barren Fields.

Every 10 years.