Chapter Seven
REINA LANDED AWKWARDLY on her shoulder with her wrist wedged between her body and the floor. She kicked her feet, rolling backwards and springing up back into fighting position before Sanna could clear even half the distance between them. That didn’t stop the tall, bulky woman from her course.
In four months, she had given Reina no quarter, teaching her to run, to fight, and to delay, drilling her without end. This training had become Reina’s life since the moment she approached the temple, and she was forbidden to speak of it to anyone. Not even Haylio could know.
Every day she went to work at the market, but she spent her nights here. And she was only beginning to understand just how much she still had to learn. How much she’d never have time to learn.
It turned out tha
