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But uard trainees weretheir color on the wheel weren’t good, so hts were purely hand-to-hand or weapon-to-weapon Or soive the to draft a color slowly, they’d go for a straight fight Not ht effectively while also slowly drawing in enough light to be able to use it after two or three
The fighters got a lot better quickly, though
The last fighters in danger began their fight A irl in blue light She used bars of blue luxin to choke hiot up, furious, instead of going toward her, he er in his face "You! You’re worse thanhoht," Kip said quietly
"You’re daht! Why are you even here? Because your s for Gavin Guile? You’re a bastard I’hbalu! This is bullshit!"
Kip knehat he should do He should punch the boy Destroy hiain, that Kip was not to be crossed He’d already done it with the bully Elio Apparently once wasn’t enough One story, people could disbelieve
But Kip didn’t want to be the boy as the crazy, erratic bastard The one whoht hurt someone with little or no provocation He looked inside hi his mother, but today it was just an ache He had no violence in him now
"Is this what I am to be?" Kip asked Some part of him wanted to weep
"What?" the boy snarled "I wasn’t done with you"
"You’re nothing," Kip said sadly "And I’uard trainees were gathered, of course, eager to see ould happen The trainer, Kip thought, was notably slow to co orders were best established early in the Blackguard
Kip stood up He needed a spark of fury, but he had nothing It was too hard to think of coldly sucker-punching another boy Especially one as rightly angry at him
"Wait, wait, wait," Kip said "What’s your name?" I won’t fail my father
"Tizrik, and you’d better remember it, you--" The boy’s eyes were suspicious
"Tizrik Ta the boy like he was long-lost family "Tizrik! My uncle said--"
"No, it’s not Tamar--I’m--"
Kip embraced the boy, who tried to push his hands away, irritated But then Kip seized both of the boy’s sleeves and yanked fiercely, throwing his forehead into the taller boy’s face With his own hands off to the sides, trying to stop Kip fro him, Tizrik didn’t have a chance