Chapter 0617

"Why are you distracted?" he asks, frowning at me.

"Faiza," I say with a sigh, stretching my tired arms up over my head. "She gave me kind of a weird assignment. Fun, but... weird. But I'll tell you about that next - I kind of want your help with it." Luca's face brightens at the prospect, but I just lift my chin at him.

"You, please," I say, dropping my hands and beaming at my pretty mate. "What was your news?"

Luca's face falls and he leans back on his hands. "After you left breakfast early, messengers came with notes. We're having the second set of Games early too crazy early. Draft tomorrow, Games the next day."

My jaw drops open in shock. "But that's...that's ridiculous," I say, shaking my head at him. "I mean, we haven't even had time to learn from our mistakes the last game -"

"I know," Luca says, his voice full of dread as he nods in agreement. "It is... it feels really bad, Ari. Like they're doing it all fast because they want us to have as much experience as possible before they ship us to the front too."

what the hell is going on. But none of the other cadets have that privilege and I guess if he really thought it was important, he'd get in touch with me and Rafe. He wouldn't keep us in

sigh. "I think we

on from it and lifting my eyes again to meet his. "Are the captains

actually," Luca says with a grimace. "Heggardy and his co-captain are back amongst the general draft pool and there are four teams this time. Each only

quickly do the math, my eyes

gasp, leaning forward towards him, suddenly livid. "And Wright and

leaning back and running a hand through his hair. "We

about the slightly bitter way that he calls Tony "my boy." What is the deal with these two, anyway? Why is there this weird antipathy? "Wait, how did Tony have something to

is that the Captain doesn't think that Wright or Blythe got the

that Heggardy and

basically took out his entire team..." Luca

shaking my head and leaning back against my own hands. "We're going

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