Spinning, the pair stood back-to-back to face the onslaught of recruits coming at them. Six boys dashed toward them. Taliesimon was shocked to see that some of them were boys she had defeated earlier. Boys who had submitted, so should not be allowed to take part. They had already sacrificed their chance to ever partake of any dragoon testing again. She gritted her teeth in fury. All six of the boys came skidding to a halt in the dirt with weapons lowered before reaching them. Each of the boys smiled. Not mean smiles, not nasty smiles, but warm ones.
“Well I’ll be,” Okara said through a laugh. Only then did Taliesimon recognize who she was looking at. Wesson and the two other boys who she had helped, along with Ghaelesh, Targun, and Darius, the second boy she’d defeated.
“What’s going on?
