4Making a bit of heat rise to my face, Jim looked deeply into my eyes for a long moment. Right before clearing his throat. “All right, well, take the day tomorrow to get unpacked and settled in. You’ll probably meet a few people around here... maybe make a few friends.”
“Okay.”
“Then, Monday, first thing, you’ll join us all for training exercises in the morning.”
I just looked at him for a moment. “I’ll join you all for... for—”
“For training exercises. There’s a large field just to the west of the village. That’s where we all meet for ‘practice’ a few days out of the month. Sometimes, we all get together more often. It’s needed so that us shifters and you Gifteds can learn to fight well together, so that—”
“But... but I’m not going to be—”
“Don’t worry. Us shifters do the patrols al
