As the days got closer to the dinner, the men spent more time away, giving the girls more time together. River took Jo and Star down to the training room where they practiced intensely. Two of the new elite force members were assigned to watch them as Kev Mul Kar was busy finalizing plans with other members who would form the tighter core group of first responders.
Both men watched in appreciative silence as all three females worked out. After stretching, they would flow through all the obstacle courses, moving silently up and over walls, across beams, and down ropes, sometimes upside down, other times, pausing halfway before doing a flip and landing on silent feet on the mats below before coming up with a weapon in their hand to strike out at an imaginary opponent.
It was only when the
