Chapter 13: Training

ELVA’S POV

I scrammed the bathroom the moment I heard a knock on my door. It was time for my first training with Mr Stewart and I was almost running late. I hadn’t thought it through before going into the bathroom to bathe. I’d still get dirty from the training, so it made no sense now that I had taken my bath.

“Who’s there?” I asked as I forced my legs through my blue underwear.

“It’s me,” Selena’s voice came from behind the door.

I rushed to the door.

“Sorry I locked the door,” I said as she came in, “I was taking my bath.”

“These are your training uniforms,” she said, handing over a stack of folded clothes to me.

I received it from her and she turned, leaving without saying one more word. Mum or Dad seemed to have just woken her from sleep to give me the uniforms. Her room was very close to theirs, making her the most accessible person whenever they needed to send someone on an errand.

The uniforms were of three different colors; each consisting of a long-sleeve shirt and a