She clocked the eighth lap on her mental odometer and instantly focused on recovery. Walked with hands on hips, inhaling, holding deep breaths for several seconds while visualizing her leg muscles as workers that would calm and recharge if she petted them and praised the phenomenal stress they had just endured.
They burned like twin bonfires.
Her quadriceps and calves got the message. The blood receded, calcium ions settling down as the muscle cells cooled, adenosine triphosphate reuptake charging nerve plexuses for more a***e.
Clarice sighed in pleasure, the kind that comes only after experiencing pain.
New bullets in the clip, it was time to start shooting at something else. Without stopping, Clarice turned her recovery walk into a powerful lunge, fencing with stiff jabs for saber th
