The next week was a dizzying blur for Lark.
She, Josh, Conan, and Shamira were almost always together. If they weren’t in lessons, they were training. If not training, they were attempting to get Snowy to obey commands. And every spare minute they had, they were huddled together researching or pooling their knowledge. They hadn’t managed to figure out why Avi chose Lark in the first place, but it was now clear the Wysteria Unit that traveled to Earth the day Alex and Sterling died were ambushed by a heavily armed group led by Casimer.
The Wysteria Unit wasn’t prepared for a full-on battle, just a reconnaissance trip. They took heavy damages and had to retreat home. Not many details were in the after-action report, but it did state there was a group of Earth natives that got caught in the
