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CASPAR
Even with Gideon storming out and the children fidgeting endlessly that first day of training, it turned out to be the easiest day of the last two weeks. The children were even more restless with Theo gone most of the day to the library, and Gideon took off into the woods every morning the moment I arrived. The others looked to him for guidance, and with his dismissive example, they were rude, unruly, and unresponsive.
I had given them the entire first weekend off. Perhaps I would be able to accomplish more with them under Theo's watchful gaze, but they were children, not the warriors Wamp had convinced them they were. They needed rest. And I needed to shake my obsession with the protective little omega who guarded them.
Theo was a quintessential rabbit. He was small, with li
