Publisher's Synopsis
The sun is just rising when Space messenger, Silver Barr arrives on Brillset. He leans on the fence and watches Torkay Maxwell working one of his race horses. He patiently waits to deliver a message from Master Esparatin. Torkay's nine-year-old son, Wren, has been awarded a full scholarship to attend Master Esparatin's Academy on Seesquala. Silver wonders how that information will be received by the boy. Later, as Wren stands on the playground of the school he has attended since he was four, he does not know how to tell his friends he is leaving and will be gone for three years, maybe longer. The scholarship package included a ticket to travel to the Academy in the V-B5 Thunderbird, a new spaceship of unusual design, considered the fastest in the Universe. But leaving his mother, father and two brothers to fly half way across the galaxy although exciting is also very scary. He has never been away from home without his father. There will be all kinds of alien beings at the school. Meanwhile, Wren's father, Torkay is wondering if he has made the right decision sending his son on such a dangerous trip. The VB-5 will travel through a fiery Time Continuum Strand and face other dangers along the way, but he trusts Captain KeSouri to keep his son safe. Now, Wren is in the Thunderbird is flying through a fiery CT Strand when Wren learns pirates are waiting at the end gate. Captain KeSouri decides to evade the pirates by taking the VB-5 through the wall of the Strand three hours before the gate, and Wren's exciting adventures begin . . . .
