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“Yeah I gave you time to see past the vampirism and settle in at The Hollow That time is up Thank fuck I want you You want me And yeah, I’ll have you You won’t be able to move by the ti you want”
Her eyes glimmered with both need and uncertainty “What?”
I dipped ain and replied, “More”
Standing opposite , Maya blew out a preparatory breath and rolled back her shoulders She slid Sam a brief look and declared, “I’m ready”
My squad didn’t always train with Sam’s all-female squad In fact, the two trained separately more often than not But Sam and Jared liked us to mix occasionally because souys froot used to fighting while close to each other so that it wouldn’t feel so foreign on a battlefield None of us could afford to be distracted
Sometimes we trained out in the rainforest, but mostly we used this indoor arena near the e horse paddock, and thewerenorth, east, south and west respectively The stands were currently empty, as was the VIP box
Tonight, Sa speed In her jaguar form, Maya was fast and vicious and explosive But Sae so that she could dive on an eneift, I was an ideal person for Maya to practice on
Sam moved into our peripheral vision “Go!”
Maya took a run and jump She shifted shape while in the air, but not quite fast enough, so she wasn’t fully jaguar when she landed oninto h to draw blood But she didn’t draw blood, and I felt no pain Because it was my astral form she’d taken down
I quickly leaped to ift, and it was incredibly rare for someone’s astral for periods of ti battle unless truly necessary, because in to depend on me to shield them Just because I looked solid didn’t mean I alas
Back in her human form, Maya swore beneath her breath “I can do better, I know,” she said to Sam
“Yes, you can,” Sareed “So let’s see you do it”
Over and over, Maya charged at round She shifted faster each ti
The training session soon reached its end, and everyone began filing out of the arena I was al to her, I lifted my brow in question
“Can we have a quick word?” she asked, standing beside Jared