Chapter 6Connor: Earth
I stood before Bynder with my rattan. I was drugged up on as many herbal pain pills as possible and medicinal ointment. This was going to be a short battle. I had no strength to give. Maybe if I limped around a lot or looked pitiful, which was not hard since I was, or I shed a tear or two, he would take it easy on me.
I was wrong. Bynder held absolutely nothing back. He was in a mood that I hadn't seen before. Like we were truly enemies and he was out for blood—my blood. There was no hope in his expression as he observed me, examined me. Only distrust. The teacher in him was gone, and only my rival stood before me, ready for the kill.
His first strike was to my left leg. My weakness. I crumbled from the surging pain.
“Get up,” he ordered but I couldn't move. He h
