“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.

found giving me a blade fun and treated it Like a game

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

the prearranged pattern. Bane told me the movements

Bane promised as we did a slow step-turn combination. “They will be so ingrained you will not

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

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

“We do not stare at the ground in the presence of others. You can’t fight staring at the

pleaded with him. “The boys will not

care. My argument fell on deaf ears. I would

boys sat in the stands watching us as the sun fell in the sky. At first they seemed confused. As

their friends placing bets on how long they’d Last. The boys all thought Damien

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