The Academy Saga, Book II: Cadet-in-Training by CJ Daly

Author:CJ Daly [Daly, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrandyLight Ink
Published: 2020-07-28T05:00:00+00:00

I exited into a cloudless, windy day. Shimmering leaves waved at me from trees, and the spots of blooming color didn’t alert me to the winter season. No obvious change in today’s temperature from yesterday’s: it was cool to warm to cool which would turn to cold tonight. But no snow. Never any of that. Today was Thursday. Tomorrow Friday, and the second time for me to leave the fifty-six-acre compound that constituted my whole world for more than a year. My stomach twisted into knots. I was both excited and nervous. Ready and unready. Not sure what to expect . . . except for more abuse from Ranger.

He’d been so cold to me during the brief briefing with the Mission Team, only glancing at me twice. The first time with mockery at my “stupid question.” How was I supposed to know what a dossier was? And the second time, with icy contempt that I was on his team. He’d made it very plain to everyone that he didn’t want me to go. I wondered why I was going, and I also wondered if it was entirely because he loathed me. Sometimes, I would get flashes of other intentions that appeared and disappeared as suddenly and randomly as the flickering of fireflies.

I’d thought his loathing had lessened with time, as mine had. But it seemed to have started up again with a vengeance right after Cheeto-Gate. I started mine up again right after he took my Andrew-privilege away. It had been almost two Christmases since I’d seen him or my father. I felt a pang. . . . And Pete. Another pang hit me, right in the chest. Where is he? I thought he had signaled me for a reason. But it had taken a long time for me to receive the message, and an even longer time for his mother to receive hers. Maybe he’d moved on during the interim? That would explain why Dr. D was avoiding me. And then a third pang hit me so hard I very nearly had to take a knee.

A deep depression threatened to weigh me down. I trudged forward to begin packing for my excursion to La-La Land, hoping the trip wouldn’t be a total bust.

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