For the next two hours, they were back on the training ground with Instructor Recken Vereman. He had them run yet another lap, before picking up shovels, and making them clear the different roads from the train station, to the storage building, the stables, and all around the Academy for the first half an hour. He would then walk around, randomly pick someone and tell them to go grab a wooden sword from the storage unit, and have them swing it repeatedly on the platform. Theora witnessed a lot of other Clay trainees being picked before her, but she also noticed that all the legacies, room leaders and the handful of vampires were also still shoveling snow. It soon became clear that Instructor Vereman was picking those with the lowest scores from the selections and having them swing the swor
