Wonderful people throughout the author’s life provided unique and irreplaceable lessons and inspirations:
Juniper
Russell
Esther
Smith
Vicky Ball
Dottie Frisbie
Linda
Dezzutti Martha
Higgins
Jennifer Carolyn Gates
Susanne Koller
Rachael
Bleich Charleen
Cox
Paula Wells
Meredith Herzog
Sarah
Satterthwaite
Patricia
Sharp
Ashley
Riddle Peter
James
Antonya Pickard
Valuable readers gave the author feedback after digging through early drafts of the book:
Deborah Meier
Rachael Hedges
Ardith Libby
Winn Barrientos
Cecelia
Harper
Karen
Oster
Karen Pihlak
Shelley Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
Excellent critiquers commented on thousands of passages, then provided reactions during in-depth interviews:
Sidney Oster, 10
Catherine “Cat” Harper, 11
Sarah Bray, 11
Joshua Clark, 11
Jessica Johnson, 11
Dylan Oster, 12
Jasper W. Romero, 13
Mariah Bruns, 14
Kristen Voie, 15
Hannah Li Powers, 16
Alex Chalcraft, 16
Kathryn C., 16
Brie Polette
Elwin Aragorn
Brendan Aragorn
Careful publishing assistants, proofreaders, and technical helpers brought the final manuscript as close to perfection as possible: Deborah Meier
Tim Kutscha
Contents
1 Learning
Curve .................................................................. 1
2 Serious
Training .............................................................. 12
3 Attitude
Flying................................................................. 19
4 From the Heart ................................................................25
5 Lizards
or
Bones ..............................................................30
6 Higher
Challenges ...........................................................36
7 The
Gathering.................................................................. 41
8 An Unexpected Ceremony...............................................48
9 Wedding
Bliss .................................................................. 53
10 Honeymoon ..................................................................... 57
11 Back to Work ...................................................................63
12 Getting Very Serious........................................................68
13 New Horizons .................................................................. 75
14 New Powers ..................................................................... 81
15 Boro’s Volcano .................................................................86
16 Sata’s Trench ................................................................... 91
17 Going Fishing................................................................... 97
18 Worse than Slavery........................................................ 166
19 Ready for Trouble ...........................................................112
20 Rini’s Mountain ..............................................................119
21 Demons.......................................................................... 124
22 Mati’s Waterfall ............................................................. 129
23 Mati’s Problem............................................................... 139
24 Rini’s Jungle .................................................................. 148
25 Flight Plan...................................................................... 154
26 The North Pole............................................................... 160
27 Learning by Watching ................................................... 166
28 The Lost City of the Atorura.......................................... 172
29 The Old, the Hot, and the Cold ..................................... 185
30 People Where None Should Be .....................................295
31 Important Stuff............................................................. 200
32 Where Hell Bubbles Up ................................................ 208
33 Saving the Manessa Kwi ................................................ 214
34 Learning from Mistakes ................................................ 221
35 Warm Milk by a Cozy Fire ............................................. 227
36 Orbit............................................................................... 231
37 A New Tradition ............................................................238
Kibi and the Search for Happiness .....................................242
“One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.”
— Ilika, after Miko’s death
NEBADOR Book Four: Flight Training 1
