Battles and Improvements
" Flora, did you see what happed out there?" Lieutenant Hernandez's voice was low and laced with admiration as he stood against a roughly sculpted wall near the barracks.
Flora, mopping perspiration from her forepart with a bent spark in her eyes, answered," I did, and I will not pretend it did n't — that experience shook me to my veritably core. But every second on the battleground only served to reaffirm something I've a place then, at the center of the struggle."
Captain Morales, who had been watching the training drills from a distance, came up with a voice that was part admiration and part challenge." You've worked harder than all of us, Flora. moment, during the politic drills, you turned what sounded to be a losing battle into an exercise of sheer fortitu
