I wished the days would blur by, streak past in a haze of warm colors and memories… but the day did not run. It didn’t even feel like it was walking. When Sonia had left, the days slowed to a crawl until I thought that I was going to run mad from her absence. The first day, I was overjoyed that Sonia was gone. I could breathe without having to worry about anybody drilling me about training. Nobody to launch their heavy attacks and nobody to scream in my ear that I needed to take things seriously. The second day, I was nostalgic and had walked down to the sparring grounds to watch the other warriors and people training down there, but I had gotten filled with a dissatisfaction so deep I had left almost immediately. I had considered training with Fergal, but I was not sure how I was going

