Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

also wanted to see if it was true that Corena had separated from Rex and was now with Trance. Her mind tried to figure out why Corena had made the change.

“We’ll talk later Pelleena, I have more people to see and introduce Trance to. Have a good evening,” said Corena as she steered Trance away and toward another group of kids that had arrived at a nearby platform. She didn’t feel threatened by Pelleena; however, she had been around her enough to know how jealous her friend could be and how Pelleena had made attempts to tempt Rex away from her. Well, if she wants him now she can have him.

Trance felt Corena next to him and sensed the tension in her. He had caught on to the fact that the two girls acted friendly toward each other, but were most probably intense rivals. He smiled and was on his best behavior as Corena led him around the platform meeting kids, parents, and royalty. They were about to catch up to their families, which were actually together and waiting for them so they could head toward their luggage and make their way to their hotel. Just then a very pretty and petite little dark red-haired girl with bright blue eyes came up and greeted them.

“Hello Corena. How are you,” the girl eyed Trance and smiled rather sweetly at him. “Hello, my name is Calista. I am the princess of Tydel, on Terana,” she said, extending her hand.

Trance took it and introduced himself. To his relief he noticed that Corena was on more friendly terms with Calista. She had a rather bubbly personality and was genuinely happy for Corena and wished her a lot of luck in the tournaments. Calista was her team’s captain and had her share of success, yet she knew that at these tournaments she might not get very far, and she accepted that.

She did not have any military ambitions like Corena. In fact she was here for the experience, her family was grooming her to one day marry a royal suitor and have him or her sit on the royal throne in due time. So the plan was working as she had met a young Duke last year and they had been seeing each other since. Calista seemed to glow as she said that he should be arriving soon and would accompany her to the dance tomorrow night and stay for the tournaments.

“That’s wonderful,” Corena said delighted for her friend. “I look forward to meeting him.”

Calista thanked them and headed off to meet some other girls. Trance found himself led again back toward his family as well as Corena’s. Once they got back with their families and the troop of Golden Griffins they all headed toward the luggage area. They mingled with the crowd gathered there and eventually retrieved their luggage and then proceeded to customs and security. Trance had to give the information on Odin his robot horse, which would be retrieved so he could be taken with them to the hotel and then onto the tournament site. Trance watched Corena give the information on her horse so he’d know what to do. It seemed to take hours to finally get everything together and get a robot horse-drawn carriage to take them.

They arrived an hour later at the hotel and went to check in. Corena had to ride in the luxury carriage with her family and went to check their room, a royal suite four floors down from the top. The upper floors were held by some of the other visiting royal families here for the tournaments. Trance and his family would be on the seventh floor. When the Sonderson family boarded the elevator Trance saw that the hotel had ninety-three floors.

Mr. Sonderson led the way into the room. It was actually more like a three bedroom, two bathroom apartment. They walked into the fair-sized living room. To the right was a kitchen and dining area. There were three doors off the kitchen and dining room, one for one of the two bathrooms and two doors for the bedrooms. To the left of the living room was a double door to the master bedroom. The master had its own bathroom and walk-in closet.

The family unpacked in their rooms. Trance’s parents went to the master while Heather took one bedroom and Trance and Sammy took the other one. Kyle had come also and was going to sleep on the living room couch. After unpacking Trance’s mother went into the kitchen and fixed lunch for them. Then everyone stretched out and relaxed. Trance received a call from Corena and talked to her for several minutes and was then called by Gracer and Zam.

The next day was going to be rather busy for Trance. He would have to go with his team to the tournament site and register for all of the events he was going to compete in. He would find out what order the events would be held so he could plan how to train and prepare his team for the competitions. He would also have to come back and clean up and get ready for the dance that night.

It was strange, he felt more nervous about the dance than the competitions. Trance had made an arrangement to ride to the dance with Corena, while his family would follow in their own carriage. He wasn’t exactly sure why, but the thought of riding in a royal coach with the princess and her family was slightly nerve-racking. Sammy tried to lighten the mood by teasing him about riding in the royal coach.

Heather was a bit too distracted to tease Trance. She had been asked to go to the dance by one of Trance’s teammates. She was going to go shopping with her mother and then come back and get dressed and ready for the dance. She already had her dress and cosmetics picked out to make it easier for her to get ready.

Kyle was there alone and would