"So is there any reason why the top 20 are coming to Nova?" Vanessa asked as she leaned against a table and crossed her arms.
To outsiders, her family's status appeared to be dazzling and full of promise, but only she knew the amount of intrigue they had to face merely at breakfast, let alone the rest of the day.
If Kolar was a nation of warriors, then Nova was a nation of intellectuals. While for the most part, such people preferred to focus on their areas of interest and pursue greater development in their fields, nothing precluded politics and leadership from being areas of interest for anyone.
Thus, the politics of Nova was very unlike the kind that pervaded Creta. There was much less conniving and backstabbing, as everyone was educated enough to understand the concepts of mutual interest and strength in numbers.
