The first blade took the throat of a fat, balding man with a dagger in his hand; the man stumbled back, blood bubbling around his clutching fingers as he tried to cry out. It is time to begin, she said as they gathered round. You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. Only decisions reached in calm can be sure.
No one is going to punish you over your lessons, not unless you try something you've been told not to. They do it in villages and farms near the Blight, too, sometimes, if a raid gets past the border towers in the night. He would bring it out on feastdays to show the people and tell them how great and mighty Cairhien is, and no one would ever see it else. I will go sit by the fire and leave you two alone.
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