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

Explorer Academy Book 2: The Falcon's Feather — page 7 — deck to check out the science tech lab Between you and me I think he needs help with Lumagine Still working on that mind-control fabric huh Hasn’t he tried like twenty times Twenty-six actually That’s nothing for Emmett It took him fifty seven attempts to invent his emoto-glasses That’s what my mom would call super stick-to-itiveness Cruz noticed how Sailor kept a hand against the wall as if worried that any minute a giant wave would capsize the boat He brought a bunch of extra seasick bands I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if you wanted to borrow one I’m fine she said though she didn’t let go of the wall It takes a few days to get your sea legs he assured her Living in Hawaii for the past seven almost eight years Cruz had spent most of his life in or on the water He knew the swaying motion of a 364-foot ship like Orion could take some getting used to but he was sure everyone everyone on his team would adjust They’d already had some practice back at the Academy’s Computer Animated Virtual Experience simulator the CAVE Taryn says there are snacks in the galley said Sailor We have a few minutes before our meeting You want to grab something on the way Cruz was a little hungry Sure One sec He snapped his suitcase shut and went to put it in the closet What’s this Sailor had picked up a postcard off Cruz’s desk It’s from my aunt She frowned How can you tell She didn’t sign it It says Begin with the birth year of Peary’s first man and then there’s a bunch of numbers It’s a game we play Aunt Marisol sends me coded messages on postcards I decode them using books art or music or whatever the clues lead to Sweet as So what does it say 10

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