The Tenets in the Tattoos by Becky James EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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THE MYTH
I DARTED INTO GAVAIN’S RANGE. DUCKING, I SWUNG MY PRACTICE
blade to the side and scored a clear hit on the side of his chest. My closest
friend staggered back a pace and shook his head, blond hair plastered flat
with sweat. He rubbed his side. “Best you can do? You wouldn’t have cut
through ribs into anything vital with a weak swing like that.”
“No, but it would incapacitate you enough for me to take your head
off,” I countered, smiling. Gavain was excellent to spar with, big enough to
take even my hits. He had a bad habit of drawing back to recover, and I
wasn’t about to let him. Swinging and prodding with the practise sword, I
kept him on the defensive, taking longer and longer strides to shove him
backwards into a retreat.
Gavain grimaced, lunging forward. I saw it coming and rolled to the
side. His blade missed me and thwacked into the field, tossing dirt in my
face.
“Left yourself open to that!” he crowed.
I swore at him, rubbing my eyes clear to inspect my clothes.
“What? You’ll have a bath after,” he said.
I swore at him again. If he had muddied my jacket, especially on this
important day…
“Special Forces, to me!” Captain Shard barked, his voice carrying over
the field and echoing back from the castle walls that surrounded us. With
that, we quit immediately and saluted each other.
“You’re too showy,” Gavain argued as we jogged back to gather in
formation around him with the others. “You’re all big, dramatic movements
and wide, wild swings. If you are going to move like that, you need more
speed.”
My head buzzed like a travel mancer’s lodestone too much to think of a
response. Soon, she will be here.
“Are you even listening?” Gavain swore. “You think you know it all.”
“I do,” I said with a shrug. “I’ve taken it on board, Gav, let it lie.”
We approached our friend Aleric, who gave me a prompt slap on the
back. “What did you do to your face?” he whispered underneath Captain
Shard’s closing remarks.
“He did it. Gav, you’re brushing off my jacket,” I complained, earning a
laugh from Gavain. I shoved his arm. “I’m serious. It better not need a
proper clean. You know what day it is today!”
He pretended to stagger to one side as a result of my push, bumping into
someone else and causing a ripple in the formation.
“Boys!” Captain Shard barked. “Shardsson, stay after dismissal.”
Gavain smirked. “Oops.”
I snatched at my anger, breathing deeply to disperse it. I didn’t want to
be late, not today, and Gavain knew that!
He put a hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry, Thorrn. She’s here to meet
you, not see your jacket.”
“Take it and brush it off.” A quick inspection as I shucked out of the
garment revealed a bit of dirt on the collar, but hopefully that would come
off easily.
“If it means that much to you.” With a mocking salute, Gavain took my
jacket, walking next to Aleric toward the baths with the rest of Special
Forces.
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