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With the threat of war eerily creeping in, Sari decides to switch packs to...
He also had to push me to keep going. By the fourth exercise, I was completely exhausted and it felt as if my body was about to shut down. At some point I had felt a bit dizzy, but after slowing the pace down for a bit, the dizziness seemed to fade away. When Feytan had said five more reps, I forced my body to continue, to finish my very first training. It felt like hell, and those five last reps felt like fifty, but I managed to do them all.
Proud of myself, I dropped my hands on my knees, staring at the floor while I tried to catch my breath. I saw some drops of sweat fall down on the ground beneath me, proof of the effort I had just taken.
"Come, water break," Feytan ordered, nudging me to the side of the field.
"Break?" I asked, panting heavily.
"Yes, break," he answered, as he tossed me a flask of water. I barely managed to catch it. "This was only the warm up."
"Warm... up?" I opened the flask, welcoming the fresh water in my mouth. I hadn't even noticed how thirsty I was.
Feytan chuckled. "Yes, you did not think training with me would be this easy, did you?"
"Not... easy," I exclaimed, shaking my head. How was this easy?
"You'll get used to it quite soon. And even now, you'll recover quite fast. You can thank our Moons and their gift for that. Now, finish your water and then we will begin the actual training." I obliged, and drank more of the water. I noticed, just like he said, that my heart was slowly beginning to pound less and less in my ears and my breathing was getting more even with every breath I took. But it was still immensely shaky. "Today, we will be focusing the training on your core. We'll focus on a different region for each training, to not push your body over the limit. I'll give you two minutes to rest a bit, then we'll start again."
I nodded in confirmation, but I didn't think I really had a choice here. But even if I did, I realized I wanted to train. I wanted to get stronger, I wanted to be able to transform and run as a wolf. But more importantly, I wanted to be able to fight back against wolves like Beckett. I wanted to be strong, inside and out. And I wanted it as soon as I could get it. Which would mean I'd have to endure every set of exercise Feytan threw at me. I'd do them, I decided, and I'd do them for me. Not for Aven, not for Death Moon. For me.
And so that's what I did.
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It took everything I had in me. I pushed myself in more ways than I could count, Feytan helped on that front as well, but after what felt like an eternity, Feytan finally called the last round. The last sets had been on the ground, and as soon as Feytan let me finish, I dropped my hands on the floor next to me, causing some sand and dust to come up in small clouds.
"Well done, Sari," Feytan congratulated me as I lay there on the ground, trying to regain control over my lungs. The dust that had come up stuck to my body, mixed with my sweat. I already longed for the hot bath that was waiting for me back in the Manor.
"Thank you," I breathed out.
"When you're feeling a little more at ease with your breathing, we need to leave again," he said.
"To where?" I asked.
"Aven called for us as soon as your training was done. So we need to leave in a few moments."
"Like this?" I motioned my hand up and down my body as I slowly got up, covered in sweat and dust.
"Maybe pat the worst of it off, but we don't have time for you to take a bath. Unless you'd like to keep Aven and the others waiting?"
I clenched my teeth. I wasn't prepared to meet with Aven in this state. He already thought badly enough of me. But disregarding his orders to take a bath wouldn't be a good look, either. "Let's go, then," I said as I gathered myself.
"If it makes you feel any better, you smell more like you and less like Fire Moon than earlier," he comforted me.
And it did make me feel better.
A/N: Dearest reader, thank you for following Sari's journey. What's your opinion on Feytan? And what's your favorite chapter so far? I'm curious to know. Mine (so far) is coming soon! ;)
