Nile had half wished he hadn’t eaten so much at breakfast. The warm up exercises had been hard. He had given it his all, he had ran the distance and kept the pace with the warriors, he had flipped tractor tyres, he had climbed ropes and ran with sand bags stopping to do squats when the whistle blew... he had done everything that was asked of him without even an eye roll. Most importantly he had kept up, he hadn’t given in even when he could feel his breakfast ready to make an appearance. When his father had volunteered as his spar partner, Nile had thought this was to go easy on him, oh how wrong he was! His thought soon shifted from dad going easy on him to dad trying to make him think he wasn’t ready for this level of training, but sheer determination had kept him from passing out whe
