“Here,” Christof sighed, handing me a long shaft of wood with a handle, “you are untrained, essentially. It is not proper for you to hold a sharpened weapon in this arena.”

I cocked my head at him and Damien just shrugged.

“This place,” he gestured, “has certain rules. We feel inclined to follow them when we are here. It was easier to just train you with your own sword, but here that is not how it is done.”

“We had to earn the right to sharpen our blades,” Kein said wistfully. The men all chuckled at the memories. Training had been hard work. They reminisced about bonding and learning together. It had been something they enjoyed.

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“You will respect the blade more when you have earned the right to use it,” Evan informed me as he gestured to the center of the field.

“training” we had done in the past was markedly different from what we did now. The men had found giving me a blade fun and treated it Like a game before. In this place, sword work was taken seriously and

one. There were standardized positions

over again we moved through the prearranged pattern. Bane told me the movements would eventually be rote. My muscles

Learned them well, we will go faster,“ Bane promised as we did a slow step-turn combination. “They will be so

felt like I was doing the Tai-chi movements I’d seen my grandmother do at the gym. I did understand the motions grandmother did were for fitness only, but I was learning to fight. Still the memory of my grandmother made me smile as I

inside the Child Keepers wandered out to watch us. They sat in front of us in the stands and I dropped my eyes to avoid looking at them. Damien noticed the second I did it and expressed

stare at the ground in the presence of others. You can’t fight staring at the ground and you will not train doing that. Keep your eyes where Bane instructs

shook my head and pleaded with him. “The boys will not understand. They will be

fell on deaf ears.

the stands watching us as the sun fell in the sky. At first they seemed confused. As they watched my little display, I heard them snicker and Laugh. I had to agree, this

to come down into the arena with us. I heard their friends placing bets on how long

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