Red City (New Alchemists #1)

Red City (New Alchemists #1)

Author: Marie Lu Listening Length: 15h 19m
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Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolli...

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Almost immediately, he feels anxiety boiling inside him, vicious and sharp, the side effect of sand. He keeps his eyes shut and tries to still the churning emotions by analyzing his situation.

He’s tied down to a chair. His hands are bound tight, covered in a thick polyester cloth.

He could attempt to convert the cloth into air, but he notices that there is a tiny tracker installed on the leather binding the cloth around his wrists.

The imbalance between the cloth’s mass and the mass of air will loosen the binding and set off the tracker, no doubt alerting Grand Central to the fact that he is attempting an escape.