Neither had Mako.
“I feel like you’re about to make another one of your big dumb speeches,” Amara said.
“Dumb?” he shot back. “That speech was inspirational. It literally saved the world.”
“Whatever you say, sensei.”
“What did I tell you about calling me that?” Jake scooped up a snowball and pegged it in her direction. She shrieked with delight as it hit her, and threw one back.
All right, then. He bent and scooped up another, then paused. “Wait,” he said, as her words finally registered. “Did everyone really think it was dumb?”
Amara just laughed and threw another snowball. Jake did too. This time they both connected.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALEX IRVINE’S novel A Scattering of Jades won the Crawford Award for Best New Writer. He also won awards for Best New Novel from Locus magazine and the International Horror Guild and was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is an acclaimed writer of novelizations including Transformers Exodus, Iron Man: Virus, and Pacific Rim, which won the Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel.
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It’s been ten years since humanity’s war with the monstrous Kaiju ended and the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean was sealed. The Pan Pacific Defense Corps remains vigilant in anticipation of the Kaiju’s return, expanding and advancing their fleet of massive mechs known as Jaegers and accepting the best and the brightest candidates into the Jaeger Academy Training Program to forge the next generation of heroes. Training is competitive and positions are few. Ou-Yang Jinhai and Viktoriya Malikova grew up in the ashes of the Kaiju War and followed different paths to join the latest batch of cadets at the Moyulan Shatterdome, the most prestigious PPDC training location in the world. Yet not long after their arrival, tragedy strikes as a deadly act of sabotage casts suspicion on the new cadets. Together they must work to clear their name and discover the truth as dark forces conspire against them and new threats surface from both sides of the Breach…
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