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Sierra woke up about an hour before dawn. Both Brandon and Leonard were still asleep, so she was free to while away some time before her training began. She decided to go for a walk, so she could watch the sunrise before Leonard would wake up. It was the first day of her proper training, and she couldn’t explain why, but she felt giddy and nervous, like there was a raging animal in her which was threatening to burst free at any moment.
She grabbed her jacket as the weather was brisk outside, and she headed out into the faint darkness of the woods around the cottage. Over the last few days, she’d gotten used to seeing the trees everywhere, much like she did while she was still at home. Here the trees were more spaced out than at home, and the undergrowth was not as much. She would have
