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And yet freeing If Kip did this, he’d do it on his own Not because of his father, but on his own merit

So, it comes to this: an easy life as a student who doesn’t even need a sponsor, or a terrifically hard life as the worst of the scrubs, and a sliuard on "

"Good," Ironfist said A fierce pleasure filled his eyes He took a deep breath that expanded his giant chest and brought his uards guard their tongues, too" Suddenly he was back in command, sharp and stern and all professionalism

"F-five?"

The commander said, "Don’t make me repeat myself Adrasteia, you, too Partner runs, you run"

Chapter 28

The next day, the girls in Blackguard scrubs class were split off fro area As inareas, one as covered in weapons, but here the weapons were bows of various sorts, frobows from Crater Lake, to the composite bows of Blood Forest that packed as much power as those yes into a much smaller frame Crossbows of a dozen sorts coets in the area where the girls alking Several fe with arirls to approach As Adrasteia followed the other nine girls, she studied the woed from the squat thick Sa that Adrasteia wanted badly: they were confident, at ease in their bodies, with the world and their place in it Somehow, that made even the plain look luirls lined up before their teachers

Petite, curvy Essel spoke "There is a legend about warrior women of old on Seers Island They were peerless archers, but--" She picked a bow off the wall, drew a practice arrow from a quiver over her shoulder, and aimed between Adrasteia and Mina

At first all Adrasteia felt was alaret wasn’t very far away fro to teach It could well be How to Take an Arrow and Keep Fighting

"Anyone see a proble an arrow at e of jealousy--first, that Mina wasn’t fazed by having an arrow nearly pointed in her face, too, and had been able to answer, and second, that Mina had probably thought of it because she had breasts, too Unlike Teia, whoht was a boy

But Essel had obviously been chosen to give this talk exactly for her large boso "Ah, you’ve trained with the bow?" she asked Mina