Jack Morgan has gone through a lot with his K’da symbiont. Draycos, in his three-dimensional form, is a large, powerful, dangerous dragon, a poet-warrior whose values of honor and courage have increasingly rubbed off on the boy. Or maybe this “rubbing off” happened during Draycos’ spells in two-dimensional form, when he needs to spend one hour out of seven resting against his host’s skin like a moving, talking tattoo.

Raised by a con-man uncle with a look-out-for-number-one outlook, and still sheltered by a starship whose computer is imprinted with that uncle’s personality, fourteen-year-old Jack couldn’t have been a more unlikely partner for Draycos, in the beginning. By now, they seem more like a team. But Jack is concerned. Strange things are happening, things Draycos has never experienced before, things that may suggest that Jack’s body is rejecting Draycos — such as the dragon’s newfound ability to slide off Jack’s skin in two-dimensional form, and his heightened senses, etc.

Together, the pair is still trying to figure out how to stop the Malison Ring of mercenaries, and their other associates, from destroying a wave of refugees from Dracyos’s homeworld. The K’da and their Shontine hosts will be sitting ducks for the ambush, unless Jack and Draycos get there first to warn them. But this is no easy task. A bungled attempt to hack the Malison Ring’s computers leads to an unlikely rescue by Jack’s sometime messmate, fellow soldier-in-training Alison. The mercenaries manage to track Jack to the planet where he was going to drop Alison off, and suddenly the pair find themselves leading a herd of feral K’da through a primitive forest, hoping to protect them from the heavily-armed soldiers committed to destroying them.

Draycos himself isn’t pleased to meet these new K’da, or rather, Phookas. Their docility and lack of intelligence raise disturbing doubts about his beliefs about K’da history. But Jack proves to have a remarkable gift as a herdsman, and a surprising commitment to saving the Phookas and their chubby, berry-eating Erassva hosts. Their work is cut out for them, with several days’ forced march between them and the site where Jack’s ship may be waiting for them — if it hasn’t already been destroyed. Meanwhile, they face hazards from nature as well as the increasingly fool-proof maneuvers of their mercenary pursuers.

Before they reach their journey’s end, surprises are in store — some of them exciting, some disturbing. At the end, it is clear that Draycos and Jack’s most perilous adventures lie still ahead. Equally clear is the fact that this series is the most captivating read in young readers’ science fiction today. Try it if you don’t believe me. If you do believe me, then you know what you have to do!

Robbie Fischer
USA

Recommended Age: 12+

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