Room to Fall
From the back of her mind dziadzia’s (pronounced jah-jah, which meant grandfather in Polish) voice whispered a platitude that sent a shard of pain through her as she’d heard it so clearly it felt like he was by her side.
It was an oft quoted line from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, one of the earliest books on strategy he’d had her learn when he first started tutoring her. One of the only books whose words she knew could quote line for line if she had to, the product of hours’ worth of labor.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Camille let slip her first real smile of the evening.
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