Chapter 13
We sealed the deal with a kiss...or would have if a shiny steel blade hadn’t sliced down between us just as our lips were a whisper away from meeting.
“Really?” the voice emerged from the other end of the blade even as the weapon twisted so it menaced only me. “You want us to be trained by someone who doesn’t notice an armed swordswoman walking up beside her in a public space?”
I tried to see who was speaking, but I couldn’t move without slicing my own jugular. So I used half of my attention to create a metal choker around my sensitive neck while responding to the opponent I still couldn’t see.
“You want to be trained? It seems like you already know what you’re doing.” With my words as cover, I materialized the other half of my magic into a sword that clanked ever so slightl
