RED POV
By the time Xavier dismissed me for my short water bench break, my entire body had given up on me.
Every muscle in me ached and even breathing somehow felt like exercise.
I lowered myself onto one of the wooden benches surrounding the training grounds before tilting my head back and emptying almost half the bottle of water in one go.
It was barely nine in the morning.
How were these people still standing?
Across the field, wolves continued sparring as though exhaustion simply didn’t exist.
Some laughed after getting knocked to the ground.
Others dusted themselves off before charging right back into another fight.
No one complained and one seemed to ask for mercy.
I looked down at my trembling hands.
Maybe I really didn’t belong here.
“First day?”
The voice came from b
