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I could almost feel how keen Dent’s disappoint study ti your Sevday, Cadet Now back to your books, all of you I’ve better things to do than co up here to settle you"
He left the room, and after a disconsolate stare at all of us so meekly occupied, our monitor followed him We heard him say, "But Corporal, they were-"
"Shut up!" Dent rebuked him crisply, and then, several stairs doe heard a flood of angry whispering from Dent, interspersed with our monitor’s whiny protests When he returned to us a few ry flush He stared around at us and then said, "Wait a ed baffled looks Rory attempted to rescue us "The fat one, Corporal? You mean the dictionary? I have it here" Rory helpfully lifted the hefty volume for him to see
"No, you idiot! That fat cadet, that Gord Where is he?"
No one volunteered an answer No one had an answer He glared round at us "He’s going to be in big trouble Big, big trouble" The proctor stood, working histo come up with a more specific threat or a reason why Gord would be in trouble si there When he could not co and we continued to stare at him like worried sheep, he slapped the table Then, without another word, he packed up the rest of his books and papers and sta us I don’t know about the others, but that was the moment when I realized e had done By collusion, we had deceived those in co an Acadeuilt was seeping into the awareness oftheir books and carefully putting their work away for the evening Trist was hu to hi Spink’s atterave
"You fought like a Plains around on the floor You’re no gentlely, frousted and triuitilanced at the s ink froht toink, and well I knew he had no money for a new one What was a minor mishap to Trist, little edy for Spink Yet he didn’t speak of it He only said, "Yes My fa in Varnian tutors and weapons instructors So I leaned what I could froside the Plains boys of the Herdo tribe They lived at the edge of our holding, and Lieutenant Geeverht"
Caleb es! Why didn’t the lieutenant teach you to fight like a man? Didn’the kno?"
Spink folded his lips and his face got that ry But he spoke calmly when he replied, "Lieutenant Geeverhtof the Herdo He had seen it useful in e ed it would work especially well for ood form to know, for when I only wanted to immobilize someone and not to injure the to Trist’s pride and he was happy to seize on it as an insult He slapped his last book shut "If you’d fought e, the outcome would have been different"
Spink stared incredulously at him for a moment Then a stiff smile spread over his face "Doubtless Which hy, free to choose my tactics, I chose one that allowed me to win" He tapped a textbook that had escaped the spill of ink "Chapter twenty-two ‘Selecting Strategy in Uneven Terrain’ It pays to read ahead"
"You’ve no concept of fair play!" Trist insulted hiood one of what it takes to win," Spink shot back unrepentantly
"Let’s go You’d be better off talking to the wall He can’t even grasp what you’re trying to tell hied at it Trist shrugged him off and walked away from the table, his neck flushed I think Oron’s words had only embarrassed him more