CHAPTER 29

“Did you do the homework?” Orion took charge of Selena’s stamina building. They were at the waterfall. Orion didn’t make her run as far as Zaden did. Instead, he focused on building the core muscle. A pair of red punching mitts on his hands, while Selena punched him with bare hands. She didn’t leave much of an impact, but she learns to read and anticipate a punch or attack.

“Uh-huh…” Selena nodded in between her heavy breathing.

Orion can see she was getting too rehearsed with punching mitt, too comfortable with the training. In the middle of punching, Orion crouched down and slide one leg below Selena, in an attempt to knock her down. Selena's eyes widened at his sudden move and took a very high jump avoiding his leg.

“Impressive…” he stood straight with a frown. She shrugged.

“Can you try climbing the rope?” he pointed at the rope hanging from the waterfall. Selena stared at the rope, inspecting from top to bottom with every possible negative outcome – a little longer tha