Zara discovered the training on the third day.
This was not surprising. Zara found out about most things that happened inside Ironmoon's walls within a reasonable window of their occurrence, not through any deliberate intelligence operation, but through the simple fact of being the kind of person to whom other people talked without quite deciding to. She had a quality of open genuine interest that made information move toward her the way water moved toward low ground, naturally and without resistance.
She found Selene in the garden after the morning session with Mara and sat on the bench without preamble and said, "Mara has been in her workroom with the door closed every morning this week. Brennan said he saw you going in at seven and coming out at nine looking like you had run a signifi
