Retribution

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Prin ducked another blow from the fighting staff and decided to verbally harass the one-footed combat master long enough to catch her breath. “You don’t visit Maude’s house nearly as often as you did when I was twelve.”

He leaned on his staff, using it as a cane to support himself. “We’ve been doing this five years and you still have much to learn. However, I don’t come as often not because I’m getting old, which is untrue, but because for the last year or so, both you and Sara regularly send me home in pain. I need time to heal from your unprovoked punishments. Twice Maude has used her magic skills to mend my broken ankle, my only good one, and once a broken arm, and so many scrapes, cuts, and sprains I’ve lost count.”

Prin answered heatedly, “Hey, you don’t give us any leeway either. We fight to survive your sessions, or you’ll hurt us just as badly—or worse.”

“My job. Come on, be honest. Maude tends to my injuries as often as yours these days, and sometimes she treats all three of us at the same time. Complaining?”

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