Tasting the Forbidden
When, at long last, he clapped his hands, saying it was time to do some stretching, he had a knowing smirk on his face, “How was your first taste of real training, folks?”
Olivia dropped to her knees, and I went to her, even though I was wheezing myself. Extending a hand out, which she took gratefully, I helped her up.
“You were not joking, Mr B,” Billy told him in a wonder-filled tone of voice. “For a combat trainer, you’re really something else.”
“Yeah, for real,” Jeffrey Miller nodded, out of breath like the rest of us.
“I miss Mr Brown,” Peter Ford let out in a mumbling, whining tone of voice.