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“And block,” Shannon says.
She’s standing a few feet in front of me, a long wooden kendo
stick at her side. Without hesitation, she lifts the stick and swings it
at my head.
I raise my right elbow to block her, but she’s too fast.
All I see is a ash of color before I’m on the ground, staring up at
the blazing, white-hot sun, my head throbbing. It is oppressively hot
—so hot I can barely think.
At least the grass is soft. Sort of.
“Get up!” Shannon bends over me. “Man. It’s like you’ve never
fought before in your life.”
“I haven’t,” I reply, rubbing the side of my head, making sure I’m
not bleeding. Until a few weeks ago, the only physical activity I’d
ever really done was a handful of squash matches in the Florence
Academy gym. And dancing, of course, at various debutante balls in
the Aeries.
“Oh?” Shannon says, poking my leg with her stick. “I seem to
recall your being in a pretty huge battle recently. Then again, you
did end up in the hospital. So I would say you lost.”
The tone of her voice is teasing, which bothers me. That entire
night is a blur: my parents’ army raided the underground hideout of
the rebel mystics, who retaliated with mighty displays of their
powers. It ended with Violet Brooks’s death and my hospitalization
—and a war that continues to this day.
Shannon pokes me again. “What are you going to do if someone
attacks you and you fall? Just lie there? Get up and strike back.”
I groan, pushing myself into a seated position. The surrounding
eld is an open square of land, though in the not-too-far distance
are dozens of trees, clumped together like knots of hair, stretching
their bare limbs up toward the clouds. This area—once prime
farming land in Upstate New York—is nothing like the shiny
skyscrapers that I’m used to in Manhattan.
Of course, none of the land is prime anything anymore: the
sweltering heat has left the grass brown and yellow and sti. There’s
been no respite for the past two weeks, ever since I left the hospital.
Shannon has been drilling me every day. According to her, I’m a
terrible student.
I brush the sweat from my forehead and wipe my hands on my
training gear, stretchy black fabric engineered to reect heat. It
can’t possibly be working. I’m so hot I could explode.
“Now watch me.” Shannon drops the kendo stick to the ground
and holds up her hands. She tucks her ngers into her palms and
makes two sts. Then she brings her arms into her chest until her
sts are just under her chin. “This is the correct position.”
I mimic her. “Okay.”
“Let’s say I’m running toward you, ready to attack. You don’t have
time to run away, so you have to defend yourself.
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