At dinner, I ate and drank and didn’t bother responding to any of the jeers sent my way. All of the recruits finished up and headed to the dorms for the night. I tracked down Vincent. “Do you mind if I use the training grounds tonight?”
Vincent studied me, and then nodded. “Don’t hurt yourself.”
“I won’t,” I promised.
Heading outside, I ran through the obstacle course again. I purposefully slowed myself down, going through the obstacles at a pace where I could pay attention to the obstacle itself instead of my own body.
Once I felt like I understood the obstacles, I sped up, timing myself, comparing it to the times that Vincent took of us earlier. I didn’t stop until I was doing as good or better than the other recruits.
I was just about to start again when I got the
