NyxThe others didn’t catch my eye like the woman. Maybe it was because she looked so badass. Perhaps, it was because I wasn’t used to seeing many women ready to stand against dangerous men. Therefore, I held on to any perceived role model I could find.“She’s going to win, Papa.”He smiled. “She certainly will last longer than most of them.”I crunched on more popcorn. “You don’t think she’ll win?”“I’m not certain. But, never mind. I want you to look at the last man.” He pointed to a younger Xavier, probably just turned eighteen or nineteen, but he could’ve been no older.He wore boots, black pants, and strips of armor over his chest that held knives. Even so small then, muscle carved cuts around every inch of his arms. He looked like my dolls—waxy, bulgy soldiers that gripped kastane swords in their huge hands. His gaze didn’t have the sharpened edge that it held now. Back then, they held fear—pure unadulterated fear. Now that I thought of it, that arena could’ve been the place th
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