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The more you sweat in practice the less you bleed in battle. True bit of
martial arts wisdom there, but tonight I wondered if losing sweat
would kill me faster than losing blood. The crowd milling around the
tournament made the air as refreshing as breathing water from a hot tub.
Seth held out a gym towel. I traded him my black belt and buried my
face, savoring the bleach-scented break from the funk in the air. My
brother’s blue button-down shirt was dry and pit-stain free. His short, dark
hair was not soaking wet and plastered to his skull like mine. Nothing made
Seth sweat. Really annoying.
“Man, I’m gonna suffocate,” I complained. “Don’t they have the
windows open tonight?” Our dojang took up the second floor of an old hat
factory on the town square. The big room looked like a jumbled chess board
tonight with our club members in black uniforms, our opponents in white.
The ceiling fans spinning overhead might have been creating a breeze, but
they were twenty feet up.
Seth craned his neck to look over the crowd and then grabbed my
shoulder. “Come on. We’ll get you cooled off.” The floorboards creaked as
he broke a path, and I did my best to keep my bare toes away from people’s
street shoes.
“Yo, Will!” Nico’s charcoal-black hair stuck out like he’d done a few
head spins during his fights. Hopping on one leg, he showed me the tattered
edge of a familiar pair of sparring pants. “I wore my lucky dobok, see?
Didn’t help my last bout, but all my leftover luck’s for you.” He chucked
me on the shoulder. “Not that you’ll need it, primo.”
I raked my soggy hair off my forehead. “Thanks. I’ll take all the free
luck I can get.”
“Here,” Seth said. “Stick your head outside for few minutes.”
He pushed me toward a towering row of windows. Sometime over the
last few hours, Halloween night had rolled up against the building tsunamistyle. Ancient glass reflected the room’s fluorescent lights in oily black
ripples.
Flapping the open edges of his tunic, Nico let out a moan as he hopped
onto the sill and leaned out. “Oh yeah, popsicle me.” He moved aside to
make room for me.
“It’s dark out there,” I managed, my mouth gone dry.
Nico ducked his head in and cocked an eyebrow at Seth. “It’s the cat
thing,” he whispered out of the side of his mouth. “Been bugging him all
day.”
Seth caught my eye, concern obvious in his look. “It’ll pass like always.
Don’t sweat it.”
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