A Self-Study Within A Broken Mind

My dad is my hero. He goes all over the world, visiting places across oceans and over different continents. He meets so many people everywhere, makes friends, and brings me back toys from all over the world. I love my dad so much, but he is away a lot. Mom is a powerhouse, but she misses dad, too. We wait for him to return when he has a bit of time. Most of the time, he only sleeps and leaves before I wake up, but recently he brought me a present from a distant country, translated to English from a very strange language. The book’s name was “ The Shining Eves: Magical Flowers of Legend ”. I had never heard of Shining Eves, but they were said to be important, and the way seasons changed. The more I read, lost in the magical world of four flowers only depicted by the season they welcomed, it became clear that these flowers blossomed in secret. The few who have seen the flowers bloom got sick with four very different things. The person who saw the Weeping Silversea could not stop crying, ...

Story: Talia is a third generation glider, following in her dad's footsteps, where he flew on Uris, she flies a Hawk with her AI buddy Monte, a drone that warns of incoming attacks that looks like a sparrow. She flies with her girlfriend Kami on the bottom seat. She aims to compete in the cutthroat sport of Sky Taming, competing with all sorts of individuals including her friends. Marxi and Haligan are a couple that fly the Alba class, largest of the gliders, and do so for leisure most of the time. Kerry, Haligan's best friend, often pushes him to compete in the events. Zadtka flies on the Uris and is androgynous and the most tolerable of the Uris fliers, as they tend to be a YOLO crowd, where Talia enjoys both competition and flying, and Marxi and Haligan only enjoy flying. Ms. Terri also competes with them, but is a master at the other gliders and proves so by entering the field with only an umbrella of her own creation that allows her to steal gliders of other competitors to...