Gareth restructured everything.
He did it without announcement or explanation, simply arrived at the morning session on the day after Maren's message with a new schedule written on a single piece of paper that he handed to me and to the three senior warriors who had become my primary training partners without ceremony.
I read it.
It was brutal. Not carelessly. Every element of it was deliberate and purposeful and built toward a specific end. But the hours were long and the intensity was higher than anything we had worked at yet and there was a look in Gareth's eyes when he handed it over that said he understood exactly what he was asking and had decided it was necessary.
I folded the paper and put it away.
"When do we start?" I asked.
"We already have," he said.
The first week of th
