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points to Rhiannon and another first-year in our squad, a man with a stocky

                build,  blue-black  hair,  and  angular  features.  Shit,  I  can’t  remember  his
                name.  Trevor?  Thomas,  maybe?  There  are  too  many  new  people  to

                remember who is who at this point.

                   I glance at Dain, but he’s watching the pair as they take the mat.
                   Rhiannon makes quick work of the first-year, stunning me every time she

                dodges  a  punch  and  lands  one  of  her  own.  She’s  fast,  and  her  hits  are

                powerful,  the  kind  of  lethal  combination  that  will  set  her  apart,  just  like
                Mira.

                   “Do you yield?” she asks the first-year guy when she takes him to his

                back, her hand stopped mid-hit just above his throat.
                   Tanner? I’m pretty sure it’s something that starts with a T.

                   “No!” he shouts, hooking his legs around Rhiannon’s and slamming her
                to her back. But she rolls and quickly gains her feet before putting him in

                the same position again, this time with her boot to his neck.

                   “I don’t know, Tynan, you might want to yield,” Dain says with a grin.
                “She’s handing you your ass.”

                   Ah, that’s right. Tynan.
                   “Fuck off, Aetos!” Tynan snaps, but Rhiannon presses her boot into his

                throat, garbling the last word. He turns a mottled shade of red.

                   Yeah, Tynan has more ego than common sense.
                   “He yields,” Emetterio calls out, and Rhiannon steps back, offering her

                hand.

                   Tynan takes it.
                   “You—”  Emetterio  points  to  the  pink-haired  second-year  with  the

                rebellion relic. “And you.” His finger swings to me.

                   She’s at least a head taller than me, and if the rest of her body is as toned
                as her arms, then I’m pretty much fucked.

                   I can’t let her get her hands on me.
                   My heart threatens to beat out of my chest, but I nod and step onto the
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