"Be better" Peter was cursed by those words, the very last words of his dying mother. Cursed to be better. To be above the small squabbles... And so, the last five years of his childhood, he spent as a target of bullying, both in school and in his adoptive, step-family. But it all changed, when a portal to another world appeared in the middle of his shed! ***** Every supergift (castle or above) = 3 bonus chapters
"Keep it steady, steady… steady…"
The voice of the maglev's pilot drilled deep into my brain, like a mantra a monk would repeat to fall into a state of deep meditation.
"Steady… steady… steady…"
Keeping my hands on each of the two autonomous control sticks, I continued to bring them closer and closer to the natural position.
Despite a huge panel of grass going right across the middle of the hovercraft's cockpit, not a single bit of natural light reached my eyes, fully replaced by the intricate displays of both the world outside and thousands upon thousands of all sorts of various parameters.
"Steady… steady… steady…"
I couldn't care less about how the world looked like within the camera feeds.