"This is the second task of the day."
Although they had been here for less than two days, the children were no longer surprised by the new hall after everything they had experienced. Instead, the friction between the two 'factions' only felt like it intensified since they had two hours of solitary confinement to think it over.
'It's not a bad filtering strategy, but it isn't something that children should have to deal with…'
Leo's understanding of the scheme running deep underneath the simple-looking first phase was almost equal to that of the instructors as their 'inner thoughts' had been revealed in the novel. However, he couldn't help feeling that they were overdoing it.
"Each one of you will be fighting an instructor for the duration that it takes the candle to burn…"
