Carlie’s Chapter 3—Dear Tiger: I Miss You
LAST WEEK, Simone was moved from one school - and one world - to another. This week, she's been well and truly busted.Chapter 3 – Grounded
From: Boarder 9652: Simone MichaelsDate: Friday, 17 August 3049
Dear Tiges
You’ll notice that my address is different. I’ve been moved again, although I’m still at the same college. I was so busted when your letter arrived. You see, I wasn’t supposed to be writing to anyone, and when you wrote back, they realized I must have written to you first. Guess they really do read the mail, hey? They are furious—and I am so grounded!Anyway, they said all you had to do to write to me was to send your letter to the nearest FedExplore office, and it’ll be sent on.Seeing as I’m grounded, I might as well tell you about the class excursion we went on last Sunday. We went to the “Exploration Center”, a theme park for anyone who ever wanted to be an explorer for the company.It was fun.We got to fly in simulators, hunt for minerals, explore the rainforests of Mingtan, and dive the oceans of Brusida. I loved it, but the Jogi exhibit was my favorite, because mum and dad were part of the expedition team that found Jogi.If you’re wondering why FedExplore is taking care of me, it’s because it was part of mum and dad’s contract that, if anything happened to them, the company had to look after me. Great deal, hey? You think they would have asked me what I wanted first!School is okay. It’s harder than Losandro’s, but we learn more about the planets, geography and economics. Later on they say they’ll teach us some basic navigation math. It’s almost as though the company is teaching us the things we need to know if we’re going to work for them. When we turn sixteen, they start allowing us to play nul-grav sports. That looks like pure fun and excitement, but it’s probably all part of the training program.It’s probably a way of weeding out those of us who don’t have good nul-gee tolerance, from those of us who do. Bet they don’t put us in our final classes, until after we’ve completed a term of nul-gee sportification.I asked if they had heard anything back from the IGPs, but they said no. They also said to stop asking, because they’ll tell me as soon as soon as they learn anything new. I’m not sure I believe them. I tried to search in the CyberNet, but it’s as though the expedition never existed.Also, I’d tell you about the new friends I’ve made, but there aren’t any.You see, I just arrived last Wednesday, and got to go on the excursion to the Exploration Center on Sunday. We all had reports to do on Monday, but we were able to talk, and that’s when I found out that I didn’t belong—and that the other kids weren’t going to let me forget it.One of the girls, Marrietta, asked me which expedition my parents were on. When I said Sharvin, she looked at me as though I’d grown a second head, or turned blue or something. Anyway, she tells me there’s no such expedition. I tell her that there was, and that it had left eight months ago. She calls me a liar and drags me to a wall in the school caf, where all the expeditions FedExplore have ever done or sent, are hanging on the wall.“If it’s so real, then find it,” she says, and I go straight to the quadrant, sector and system it’s meant to be in.You know what, Tiges?It wasn’t there.
And, now, none of the kids will talk to me.
It’s like I shouldn’t be here. Well, that’s fine with me, because I really wish I wasn’t!
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From: Boarder 9652: Simone MichaelsDate: Friday, 17 August 3049Dear Tiges
You’ll notice that my address is different. I’ve been moved again, although I’m still at the same college. I was so busted when your letter arrived. You see, I wasn’t supposed to be writing to anyone, and when you wrote back, they realized I must have written to you first. Guess they really do read the mail, hey? They are furious—and I am so grounded!Anyway, they said all you had to do to write to me was to send your letter to the nearest FedExplore office, and it’ll be sent on.Seeing as I’m grounded, I might as well tell you about the class excursion we went on last Sunday. We went to the “Exploration Center”, a theme park for anyone who ever wanted to be an explorer for the company.It was fun.We got to fly in simulators, hunt for minerals, explore the rainforests of Mingtan, and dive the oceans of Brusida. I loved it, but the Jogi exhibit was my favorite, because mum and dad were part of the expedition team that found Jogi.If you’re wondering why FedExplore is taking care of me, it’s because it was part of mum and dad’s contract that, if anything happened to them, the company had to look after me. Great deal, hey? You think they would have asked me what I wanted first!School is okay. It’s harder than Losandro’s, but we learn more about the planets, geography and economics. Later on they say they’ll teach us some basic navigation math. It’s almost as though the company is teaching us the things we need to know if we’re going to work for them. When we turn sixteen, they start allowing us to play nul-grav sports. That looks like pure fun and excitement, but it’s probably all part of the training program.It’s probably a way of weeding out those of us who don’t have good nul-gee tolerance, from those of us who do. Bet they don’t put us in our final classes, until after we’ve completed a term of nul-gee sportification.I asked if they had heard anything back from the IGPs, but they said no. They also said to stop asking, because they’ll tell me as soon as soon as they learn anything new. I’m not sure I believe them. I tried to search in the CyberNet, but it’s as though the expedition never existed.Also, I’d tell you about the new friends I’ve made, but there aren’t any.You see, I just arrived last Wednesday, and got to go on the excursion to the Exploration Center on Sunday. We all had reports to do on Monday, but we were able to talk, and that’s when I found out that I didn’t belong—and that the other kids weren’t going to let me forget it.One of the girls, Marrietta, asked me which expedition my parents were on. When I said Sharvin, she looked at me as though I’d grown a second head, or turned blue or something. Anyway, she tells me there’s no such expedition. I tell her that there was, and that it had left eight months ago. She calls me a liar and drags me to a wall in the school caf, where all the expeditions FedExplore have ever done or sent, are hanging on the wall.“If it’s so real, then find it,” she says, and I go straight to the quadrant, sector and system it’s meant to be in.You know what, Tiges?It wasn’t there.
And, now, none of the kids will talk to me.
It’s like I shouldn’t be here. Well, that’s fine with me, because I really wish I wasn’t!
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The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In the meantime, you can find them on this blog, until one week after the last chapter in the last book of the series has been posted, at which point this series will be taken down, and a new series serialised on site.
books2read.com/u/4Awrze 
books2read.com/u/mgrxdR 
books2read.com/u/4DoG8D
books2read.com/u/b5Mng1
books2read.com/u/3GYBla
books2read.com/u/4782k8
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