Chapter 42: Ancalagon

“Ajax, are you in this class?” Cedric asks him.

“No, I was making sure that Eliane and Cal got breakfast. There was an…incident.”

Cedric looks at me, assessing me for a moment.

“Jax, why don’t you stay. It’s Eliane’s first class and Cal looks like he needs to hit someone. You have enough control to spar with Eliane and then I can give Cal someone to fight full on,” he says. I don’t care much for the wolves, but I do like Cedric. Maybe that’s because he’s a rider, or maybe he’s a rider because he’s different than other wolves.

“It's her first class, so you want me to teach her technique?” Jax asks.

“Are you comfortable with that?”

“Yeah, plus you’ve got Kendrick here, so if I screw it up, I’m sure he’ll set me straight,” he says, smiling at the Alpha wolf.

“You know it, Jax,’ Kendrick says, smiling back as he warms up.

Cedric turns back and looks at me, nodding his head for me to follow him. I grab the sword that I always use in this class. It’s my mother’s sword from her family, so no