“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.

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

a sword and how to stand with one. There were

through the prearranged pattern. Bane told me the movements would eventually be rote. My muscles would move me through them in fluid

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

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

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 his displeasure. He got right in my face to

ground in the presence of others. You can’t fight staring at the ground and you will not train doing

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

My argument fell on deaf ears.

confused. As they

long they’d Last. The boys all thought Damien was going to beat this young family down

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