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Wilt felt himself flipping over in the air and slammed hard into the ground, the air rushing out of his lungs with a whoosh. He lay still and tried to breathe.
‘That’s four!’
Higgs’s giggle snapped him back and he saw the boy grinning at him from the edge of the circle they had marked out for training.
‘You don’t have to enjoy this so much, you know.’
‘I know.’ Higgs’s smile only widened before focusing on the small pile of stones arranged in front of him.
Wilt pulled himself to his feet and turned to Daemi, who stood with her back to him at the far edge of the circle. She wasn’t even breathing hard. Wilt hadn’t been able to get a word out of her all morning. She simply waved him on to attack, then each time managed somehow to sidestep him or duck under his charge, always with the
