

As the friends strike out on their own, Ettian must contend with conflicting loyalties, torn between Gal, his heritage, and a strange young woman named Wen who joins the adventure. When Gal is targeted by their fellow classmates for his royal Umber blood, Ettian and Gal flee together.

The boys are inseparable, dancing on the edge of something more than friendship even after shocking truths about Gal’s past come to light: he is heir to the Umber throne. Seven years later, Ettian is a student pilot in the Umber Imperial Academy and nursing a crush on his roommate, Gal.

When the Umber Empire conquers the Archon Empire, 10 year old Archonian Ettian is left a disenfranchised orphan. Skrutskie ( Hullmetal Girls) draws from classic adventure tales to create an action-packed space opera, the first in the Bloodright trilogy.
