if you don't terrify people a little then what's the point
It wouldn’t be a proper lesson with Deimos if the instruction didn’t become gradually, or suddenly, more difficult. He believed in challenges rather than complacency, experiences that sharpened and honed the mind as well as the body, the soul, the aches in muscles worth the opportunities for learning and skills. Better to experience it here, in the safety and confines of the training grounds, then elsewhere, desperate and fending for their lives.
These things would be remembered – as she hurled another knife into the dummy’s eye, and it fell, sudden, sure, and true, incapable of marring her further. “Yes,” he confirmed with a roguish grin, though his stare flickered over to the second, as the rest thundered and meandered around. It didn’t have near as sharp nor as true aim; dagger colliding with its shoulder. “Now take it down.”
These things would be remembered – as she hurled another knife into the dummy’s eye, and it fell, sudden, sure, and true, incapable of marring her further. “Yes,” he confirmed with a roguish grin, though his stare flickered over to the second, as the rest thundered and meandered around. It didn’t have near as sharp nor as true aim; dagger colliding with its shoulder. “Now take it down.”
DEIMOS
