PREVIEW:
First War
Chapter One
With energy still flowing through my body, I leaped into the air, narrowly avoiding Crusher’s crablike claw. As I flew upward, I reached out, grabbed the middle yard of The Mystery and hauled myself up onto it. The wind rushed around me as I carefully held onto the mast. I was a good thirty feet or so above the deck of the airship, and if I moved even one inch in the wrong direction, I’d fall to my doom. Well, perhaps it wouldn’t kill me, but it would definitely hurt.
Holding onto the mast’s main rope, I looked down at the desk. The vigilante known as Crusher was looking up at me with a mixture of surprise and anger. He probably hadn’t known I could jump so high, which was understandable, because I hadn’t known it until a week ago myself.
“Get down here,
