THE WHITE QUEEN
“Quinn, are you joining us today?” Sky’s voice was like thunder and lightning.
“Morgan, I’ll be back in a bit,” Quinn said as she dashed, jumping over the fence of the arena and picking up a sword.
Sky looked at Morgan, bowed, and turned her attention to the group of young women in front of her. A natural-born leader, Morgan thought as Sky demonstrated sword fighting techniques.
They practised in pairs, but they also learned to fight in larger groups. Sky explained that some of them would never be as strong as a man but that they could level the odds by fighting and defending as a team. She told the young warriors a battle story, of how her second-in-command, Madria, and she had fought twenty-six Hu’urei during the war and killed them all. How they had fought with their
