Chapter 7: Trance

Master Kaelan has a couple of Star Students demonstrate what we ought to have learned by the end of this session before the hall. Picking weapons begin in the second year. By then, I'll be gone from here.

It doesn't stop me from watching in pure fascination as Darian and Raven go at each other, swiping and slashing. They move like the wind and I have never seen anything like it in my entire life.

Raven dodges Darian's powerful blow with such ease that it seems like she is dancing. Darian follows up with barrages of kicks and blows that are easily deflected-- from what I can see, because their movements are too fast fast to follow and it's like watching a blur of motion.

They seem to move in perfect synchronization, each move countering the other in a never-ending dance. Their feet barely touch the ground as they glide around each other, exchanging blows that seem to come from nowhere.

Not even the best sentinels in Wolvendom move like that.

They don't eve