Antelligent Design

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When you spend your entire life learning to kill something, and then you kill said thing, it’s awfully hard to turn around and refuse those instincts.

Morrelia thought back to her childhood. The long days spent drilling Skills with her brother in the practice court whilst Mother watched, laughing at their exuberance. When her father was home, he would take them to the Legionary fort in Liria to practise with the trainees. Even from a young age, the two children had been a match for those twice as old. She remembered once defeating an eighteen-year-old sword apprentice when she was only ten and not yet grown into her class.

Her father had smiled broadly and ordered the trainee to double his practice time before lifting his daughter in one massive arm and kissing her on the cheek. She’d been so proud.

Her brother had shone even brighter. His Skills rose so quickly, training with such ferocious intensity, he’d been accepted to the Legion two years early and became the strongest trainee the moment he walked in the door.

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