Chapter Eleven

She did not want to be like him and had taught herself to anticipate and respond to his moves instead, practising for hours alone in her room. Now she faced him and put her knowledge into practice, he moved with speed and accuracy and she blocked him and retaliated every time. She toyed with him, wearing him down, he was not as fit as her and was soon panting heavily. No one interfered as she sent him to the floor time and time again, instead, the Warriors stood back watching closely The silver daggers slid across the room out of his reach as she knocked them out of his hands one by one and with a speed and strength that shocked him she broke his wrists. He grunted in pain as she spun him beneath her in a stranglehold squeezing his neck strangling him, he began to turn blue as he fought to breathe,

Now his Warriors stepped in and picked up the daggers,

‘Release the Leader Aurora’

His Second came forward with his two grown-up sons behind him,

‘Release him and go back to your room and n