The next day, Tina found herself standing in the same training ground she had been in the day before, though things felt noticeably different this time. For one, no one was paying any attention to her. The group of monsters who had spent most of the previous training session making fun of her and trying to get under her skin seemed to have completely lost interest in her existence. They didn't throw comments her way or even spare her the occasional mocking glance. Instead, they acted as though she wasn't there at all. Tina wasn't sure whether she preferred that or not. She glanced at Tyler, who was standing a short distance away. He didn't seem bothered by any of it. Or perhaps he was simply pretending not to be. Their instructor stepped forward, drawing everyone's attention to him a

