The book is set many years in the future, it never says the date or talk about our time by saying 'many years ago'. We are supposed to assume it's in the future because people use hover jets instead of cars, and people live in space motels and go to space schools. In the biginning of the story we are introduced to two of the main characters, we hear them arguing with eachother. The characters are Jesse Fisher and Cassius Stevenson. Jesse is a 'Skyshipper', while Cassius is a surface operative. They meet on a roof top while Jesse and his team are on the surface trying to retrieve a 'pearl' as a mission that his school sent him on to prove his worth. Cassius tries to push Jesse off of the ten story building they were on, however. When Cassius tried to get close enough to push him off, something close to an explosion happened between Jesse and Cassius, Cassius was thrown back further on to the roof while Jesse fell to the ground, unscathed. Jesse is then attacked by 'Fringers', they are people who don't live on a skyship or in a chosen city.
The beginning of the book is confusing, to say the least. It's written in such a format that you belive that the author expects you to know what he's talking about. That isn't the case, the author wants yo to be confused at first so that he can explain everything later. However, the most you are probably going to understand in the beginning is the Skyship vs. Government land dwellers/ Pearl Hounds vs. Fringer war.
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