Alpha Adrain
When he spoke, explaining our purpose here and the brutal expectations ahead, his voice rolled over the field like thunder,calm, authoritative, impossible to ignore.
Then the stability training began.
One of the Alphas demonstrated it first: a deceptively simple stance that demanded perfect balance, core strength, and focus while shifting between defensive and offensive forms. It looked easy.
It was anything but.
My legs trembled. My bandaged hand throbbed. My mind kept drifting back to Rosa’s threats, to the whispers, to the fear of not being enough. I wobbled, nearly losing my footing.
“Focus,” I whispered to myself.