Contact, by CGM Mackenzie

Born into a world without flavor or colour, in which difference is not tolerated and power is in the hands of the system and its single Language, Zilimi is called to take a different path - one that leads to banishment and a fight for the future of all humanity. But Zilimi is not alone: mysterious Voices help at every twist and turn of that chosen path. Is Zilimi strong and wise enough to choose a future for all of us? And what links the  strange creatures of the Council of the Ascended, meeting at the heart of the Galaxy, to an eleven-year-old on Earth?

Once upon a (future) time...