Explorer Academy Book 2: The Falcon's Feather

Explorer Academy Book 2: The Falcon's Feather — page 5
the passage Doesn’t this place make you feel like you’re seeing double She had a point Most everything in the cozy whitewashed maple stateroom was in pairs two twin beds two identical navy-and-white pinstriped comforters with shams two maple nightstands side-by-side dressers a pair of navy stuffed chairs each with a penguin pillow and two small writing desks and chairs Cruz loved his desk Made of polished blue lapis granite the deep sapphire blue stone with golden flecks and soft white splatters reminded Cruz of photographs of the Milky Way Standing like a miniature tent on each starry desk was a note from Explorer Academy president Dr Regina Hightower She’d written Cruz and his roommate Emmett Lu nearly identical messages wishing them an exciting educational and life-changing journey However Cruz noticed his note contained one line that Emmett’s did not Under her signature Dr Hightower had included her private cell phone number In case you need anything she’d scrawled beside it then Please be careful The school’s president was one of the few people who knew about Cruz’s personal mission He was looking for a formula developed by his mother before her death Petra Coronado had discovered a serum that had the power to regenerate human cells a breakthrough that could have led to curing hundreds of diseases A founding scientist with the Synthesis the top secret scientific branch of the Society she had hit upon the formula while working on a pain medication for Nebula Pharmaceuticals Once Nebula learned she’d created something that went far beyond their parameters they’d ordered her to destroy the serum and formula As his mother had explained in her digital holo-video journal The last thing a pharmaceutical company making billions of dollars selling drugs wants is for humanity to never need those drugs Cruz’s mother had been pressured into agreeing to Nebula’s demands but not before engraving the formula into black marble splitting the stone into eight pieces and hiding the fragments of the 8