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For the next week, Kane raged. In training with darkness, he squeezed all the strength out of us, and then finished off in hand-to-hand combat. Those who could still even stand on their feet after all this bullying were subjected to further torture by jogging. Never in my life have I consumed so much darkness at once and reached such inner exhaustion. Jokes about the possibility of restoring the reserve through intimacy with a man have ceased to be jokes for me. At night, I felt a vague yearning, and sometimes I experienced a very clear desire.

Except me, no one suspected the relationship and the subsequent break between Kane and Venira, so everyone was completely at a loss and built various incredible guesses about such a drastic change in the mentor's behavior. Venira never showed up for training, first she left the estate for three days, and after returning she began training with Ilya. It's hard to say what pissed Kane off more, the breakup or her leaving for another mentor, but t