Ryder
She’d stood on that training ground and watched as Darren had gotten a beating for the past five mornings, it was disguised as training him, and it was only Darren that had to come down here. Not once had he turned up late, been there each morning right before the sun crested the horizon.
He’d taken each beating or "training" without saying much at all. But today was different. He’d brought his entire unit down here along with Kale and his unit. She wondered if he was trying to save his backside from taking another beating, or if he thought he'd have a new partner to train with because he’d brought others. Though it could just be that he'd exhausted all human world weapons and was down to a choice of one of the two bladed otherworldly weapons they carried everywhere.
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