Training

Chapter 58 I could feel the tension around the house since I woke up this morning, air thick like an unseen fog clinging to every surface as footsteps echoed through corridors. They have already started preparing for their plan since they have brought it forward, hushed voices threading like fine wires into morning's brittle light. And they have been busy, I could see that my own task right now is to train and get ready for the mating ceremony, obligations narrowing like a lane marked in stone. Right now, I'm at the dining table eating with Aurora, silverware clicking like measured ticks of a clock, which after eating, we're going to train, anticipation humming like a bass note in the poised quiet. “Am done with my meal,” Aurora said, words dropping like sparse pebbles into a quiet pool. “Am also done so let's start going,” I replied and we walked out to the spot we are going to train, footsteps synchronizing like mechanical beats into the measured stillness. As we were walking,