Rainblade Remembers

Rain crashes through the roof of Mingzhao's field while he digs medicine pods from the mud with bare hands. He needs the crop to live, yet the powerful schools need it to keep their jade armor flying. That gives a lonely farm worker a kind of power nobody respects. Mingzhao trusts plants because plants do not lie about what they need. People do. Taped inside his old combat vest is a cockpit key that several schools would kill to own. Hidden in his tool box is an old medical formula that may cure pilots whose nerves are dying from armor use. When a test fighter breaks apart and a recording blames him, Mingzhao must accept help from people he would rather keep away. The armor under his hands h...