The Graduate

By TM Blayte

After three years of gruelling drills, and nearly impossible tasks, the next generation of rebels are almost done with their Rider training. To qualify as fully trained Riders, there is one final assignment that will test their abilities.
Mira King, and Nyl Jayms, along with other teenage rebels have to infiltrate Lord Daylle’s palace, one of the most heavily guarded places in the monarchy. But for well trained Rider trainees as them, nothing is impossible. Or is it? After all, what can five teenagers do against more than fifty well trained RG?
This short story takes place two weeks before the events of Until We Are Free, coming 01 August 2018 from Alban Lake Publishing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TM Blayte
• Release date: May 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463046807

TM Blayte

TM Blayte is a Broadcast and Journalism student. He enjoys reading anything that counts as good fiction, watching sitcoms and following Current Affairs. When he is not fighting with his economic self on novel allowance, he can be found writing.Stay up to date with T on his blog, https://www.tmblaytespeaks.wordpress.com/. Follow him on Twitter @tmblayte.

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The Graduate

By TM Blayte

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The Graduate

About the author

Excerpt from Until We Are Free

The Graduate

Mira could not remember what she had dreamt, which was not a surprise. When one was enrolled in a camp whose sole purpose was to make you a machine of destruction, whatever your unconscious brain was thinking became, well, irrelevant.

Instead, there are four people ahead of me, was her first thought. Her second and third were strategies to outrun everyone.

She was so used to the routine now, her body did everything on instinct. Every morning, by the time the bell rang, she would be up, running the two-kilometre track.

Mira overtook two of the four trainees. She dared a glance behind her and saw that nearly the entire camp was now running. Some might call looking behind you when you are running foolish, but Mira’s instructors had taught her, Whatever you are running from is often more dangerous than what you are running to. And a good soldier always keeps enemies in sight.

Mira managed to overtake the next trainee, a tall Daylle Islander boy. She didn’t need to see a face to know who was in the lead.

Jane! Mira called, New instructions from Baartman!

The Maysauni girl only took enough time to show Mira the middle finger over her shoulder before putting on an extra burst of speed. Of course, Mira had not expected Jane Garcia to fall for the same trick twice in one month. That was not her purpose. Revolution knows, Jane had fallen for Mira’s sabotages seven times over the past three years.

At the last half kilometre, Jane started slowing down, as Mira had known she would. Mira used both hands to show Jane