Ari is a 15-year-old cadet trying to prepare for her second-year evaluation at Windrider Academy. When another cadet sees her struggling and offers to help, she reluctantly agrees. Their relationship goes from training partners to a tentative friendship, but everything turns up a notch when Ari spots a wanted gang leader on an outing in Gaobeyna, and decides to act.

This is the hero origin story to a forthcoming young adult science fiction novel, Windrider.

A cadet at Windrider Academy struggles to prepare for her end-of-year windriding evaluation. Meanwhile, the Windrider Corps is on the hunt for a dangerous criminal.

"Spark"

by AJ Elliott