VER The Valveronians, to my utter relief, had agreed to help. At least, the ones that could. They offered us shelter for the night and right at sunrise we’d gotten to work on training them. While many of them knew how to fight and had fought before, there were still several that never seemed to have held a sword before. And we really didn’t know how this was going to go. For now, Drakus had kept his hood up and his cloak on. We didn’t want to startle them with the fact a King’s Blood was in their camp just yet. Though, as Raven pointed out, the longer we kept it from them the worse it would be when they finally learned the truth. Thus far the training wasn’t off to the best start. It was nearly midday and we had split into groups of three for training purposes. Galen was working with th

