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* Jarra's Early Years
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* Jarra's Earth Girl Summary
* Jarra's Earth Star Summary
* Jarra's Earth Flight Summary
* Jarra's Aftermath Stories Summaries

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## Earth and Fire

*Earth and Fire* takes place in June 2788, when Jarra is 17 and in her final year of Next Step. The story opens with Jarra and Issette sneaking into Europe Off-World. Entering Off-World transits is forbidden to underage wards of Hospital Earth, so they first enter Earth Europe Transit 3, which only has intercontinental portals. Jarra uses a code given to her by Keon to enter a locked emergency access route that connects the two transits. While inside Europe Off-World, Issette and Jarra see a couple who have just had a son with Immune Syndrome and clearly plan to give up custody to Hospital Earth. When they attempt to leave through the same door that they entered, a security guard notices them and chases them through the corridors. Just as the guard gets close, he stops chasing them. Jarra leads Issette through the corridors until they find a fire exit.

When Jarra and Issette return to their Next Step, Cathan sees that Jarra is dressed up and begins harassing her. She had recently broken up with him, and he refused to accept that their relationship was over. The three of them then run into the Principal of their Next Step. The Principal has Jarra go on record to say that she doesn't want to meet with her ProDad, tells Issette to dispose of her stuffed animals, and scolds Cathan for the artwork containing nudity he had in his room. After moving all of Issette's toys to her room for safekeeping, Jarra receives a message from Crozier about an opportunity to have flying lessons with a professional pilot while the school history club is at New York Fringe over summer break.

At Keon's advice, Jarra forces her ProDad to give consent for the flying lessons under threat of reporting him for neglect. She also get's Candace's consent after discussing how important getting her pilot's license is with her. The next day, she goes to New York Fringe, where she meets up with Gradin, who only reluctantly agrees to giving her flying lessons after seeing that she truly loves flying. When he asks Jarra for her pilot theory test results, and she says that she hasn't taken it yet, he gives her two weeks to pass the test.

The pilot theory test covers a significant amount of information beyond the basic flying skills that Jarra already has, so she enlists Keon, Issette, and Cathan to help her prepare. Cathan only agrees to help her pass the meteorology section if she promises to pose for a painting without clothes on. Jarra agrees, having secretly come up with a loophole in his request. After two weeks of preparation, she takes the test and passes every section except for the General Aircraft test, the only one she didn't specifically prepare for. Having taken the test at a location in Earth Europe, she takes advantage of time zones and takes another attempt immediately afterward in Earth America, which is five hours behind. This time, she passes the General Aircraft test by two percent.

When Cathan expects Jarra to pose nude for him, she appears wearing an impact suit, which she says doesn't count as clothing. She then checks his lookup and finds that he was filming her. Instead of posing nude, Jarra agrees to ask Keon for a door access code to give to Cathan.

At the end of Jarra's first flying lesson with Gradin, she makes a mistake during the landing that causes minor damage to the plane. Gradin gets very angry with Jarra, who in turn becomes deeply upset and runs off, planning to never fly again. Gradin then calls Jarra to tell her that he should have watched her shutdown sequence more closely and she shouldn't give up because of one mistake.

Despite seriously considering giving up, Jarra returns the next day to continue her lessons. While she is practicing take offs and landings, Gradin gets word of a forest fire near Athens that requires air assistance in the firefighting efforts. When they arrive at Athens, Jarra hears Cassandra 2 speaking on the broadcast channel. Gradin instructs Jarra on operating the fire plane scoops, which scoop water from the ocean to be dumped over the fire. While she and Gradin are flying circuits, Issette calls and informs Jarra that the Principal is angry about her missing curfew to firefight but can't do anything about, and Gradin explains that Hospital Earth is willing to ignore Jarra being a few months underage for the sake of training a new pilot.

On their second day of firefighting, Gradin has Jarra fly while he controls the scoops. After several circuits, the plane ahead of them, Paris Coeur, experiences thruster damage and the pilot jumps from the aircraft. Jarra and Gradin save the pilot by picking her up from the ground with the scoops. Two days later, rain extinguishes the fire. Gradin and Jarra fly to her Next Step. He tells her that she is now one of only a thousand qualified pilots on Earth.

Once Jarra has safely landed on the lawn of her next step, Keon makes a final out of several previous comments that imply he may be interested in a relationship with Jarra but couldn't handle her constant involvement in risky activities. Before the crowd that watched the plane landing move inside, Cathan and a man who introduces himself to be Professor Reece from University Adonis arrive through a public portal nearby. Professor Reece claims he insulted the guest of honor at a medical conference, and Cathan explains that the guest of honor was his father. Jarra realizes that this is why he wanted a door access code.

Professor Reece insults Cathan with slurs for people with Immune Syndrome and threatens to press charges against him. The Principal of the Next Step says that should charges be pressed, Cathan's parental records will be used in his defense, which could generate undesirable publicity. She also threatens him with charges of trespassing and abusive conduct. Professor Reece leaves, and the Principal discusses the dangers of rebellious behavior with the seventeen year olds. She reveals that she was in Correctional for the final seven months of her Next Step years, and that she knows about virtually all of the misconduct happening but has been doing her best to prevent Hospital Earth inspectors getting involved. She says that they need to accept the unjust control of Hospital Earth, but Jarra vows to one day prove that she's better than the norms.

## Earth and Air

*Earth and Air* takes place during Jarra's school summer break in 2788. Her school history club are spending the break at New York Fringe dig site. Fringe dig sites are flatter and generally safer than the dig sites in the heart of ruined cities, so school parties and amateur archaeologists are permitted to work on them, but accidents can still happen.

While the history club is waiting in a transit for the New York Fringe reception area crowds to die down, Jarra is approached by a woman claiming to be her mother. The woman refuses to leave Jarra alone until she sees that she doesn't have a birthmark on her forearm. Once in the reception area, Jarra talks to a man called Felipe, whom she admires greatly because he's going to be joining Earth 28 as a professional archaeologist soon. When the class finally arrives in their accommodation dome for the break, Crozier holds a lottery to assign rooms, as there are thirty available rooms and thirty-one students on the trip. The youngest member, 12 year old Wren, is left without a room, and Jarra offers to give Wren her room and sleep in the hall. Crozier lets Jarra sleep in the store room, which students typically aren't allowed in without adult supervision, but as the history club captain he trusts her.

Jarra gives up her position as team 1 tag leader to Milo, as she will be busy with flying lessons over the summer. The morning before Jarra's first flying lesson, Felipe returns to fix the dome's food dispensers, and he tells a story about a dangerous rescue he claims to have carried out as tag leader on his degree course. During her first morning flying with Gradin, Valeska calls him to try to join a historical battle re-enactment. Jarra only realizes afterwards that this was Professor Valeska Orlova of Earth 1, who is famous among archaeologists.

The next day, near the end of Jarra's second lesson, the plane experiences a thruster failure. She successfully lands the plane, but Gradin then reveals that he had intentionally shut down one of the thrusters so that Jarra would have to handle an emergency landing. This was a serious breach of dig site regulations, and Gradin is banned from giving flying lessons. Because Jarra has already given up her tag leading spot, she agrees to instead spend her mornings giving extra training to the club newcomers. Crozier also asks her to talk to Wren, who has asked to leave the trip early, having been frightened by Jarra's emergency landing. She tells Wren the story of how she asked Crozier to leave during her first dig site trip too, which convinces Wren to stay.

Valeska visits the class dome to tell Jarra that she's convinced the Dig Site Federation to lift Gradin's flying lesson ban. She offers to accompany Jarra and Gradin on future flying lessons, which Crozier says isn't necessary, but she insists. While in the plane with Jarra and Gradin, Valeska tells Gradin that she has decided to accept his three-decade old offer of marriage.

A week later, while Jarra is training Wren, Alund, and Landon on operating heavy lift sleds, there is a radiation spike across New York Fringe that requires an emergency evacuation. Because the training ground is separate from where the rest of the history club is doing excavation work, they evacuate through a different evac portal and are sent to a different casualty center than the rest of the club. Jarra and her three trainees are sent through decontamination showers, then sent into a hall with a large amount of New York Fringe evacuees. She becomes protective of her frightened trainees.

Eventually, a second stage oral medication is distributed in order of age group. When Wren is receiving her meds, Jarra sees Felipe steal her tablets and take them for himself. Jarra tries to attack him, but Valeska intervenes and informs Felipe that she will be reporting his behavior to Earth 28. Valeska then waits with Jarra and her trainees while the Military confirms the type of radiation that spiked. Food is passed out, and Jarra discovers cheese fluffle. Valeska also reveals that she was actually the tag leader who carried out the rescue that Felipe described earlier. Gradin finally joins the group and has Jarra explain how she would have gone about getting data on the radiation with a survey plane while minimizing risk to her own safety, which is what he did. Valeska also finally convinces Gradin to marry her. Interestingly, she mentions that she couldn't remarry one of her ex-husbands because he's interested in Jerez of Cassandra 2.

While in a transit with the history club waiting to portal back to her Next Step, Jarra runs into the woman who previously believed she was her mother. Instead of just showing that she has no birthmark, Jarra pretends to be radioactive in order to scare the woman away from Earth permanently. Just before portaling back to her Next Step, Wren tells Jarra that she wants to be just like her one day. Jarra reflects on the different versions of heroism she'd seen over the break and decides that she's going to be the best version of herself according to her own rules, not Hospital Earth's.

## Earth and Water

Still to be released, it will be a direct sequel of *Earth and Air and a prequel to* Earth Girl*.*

## References

### Bibliography

* *Deltan Escape* (2022)
* *Frontier: An Epsilon Sector Novella* (2016)