“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.

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

a sword and how to stand with one. There were standardized positions the

the prearranged pattern. Bane told me the movements would eventually be rote. My muscles

faster,“ Bane promised as we did a slow step-turn combination. “They will be so ingrained you

gym. I did understand the motions grandmother did were for fitness only, but I was learning to fight. Still the memory of

in front of us in the stands and I dropped my eyes to avoid looking at them. Damien noticed the second I did

sternly. “We do not 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

with him. “The boys will not understand. They will be confused.

didn’t care. My argument fell on deaf

seemed confused. As they

come down into the arena with us. I heard their friends placing bets on how long they’d Last. The boys all thought Damien was going to beat this young family down for

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