"I'm fine, I don't need any extra training," Ollie protested when he saw the look that Ashlynn gave him.
He'd accepted Ashlynn's invitation to watch but Thane had made it clear that he wasn't ready to join in yet. His own fumbling attempts had made it abundantly clear how right the former knight was when he told Ollie that he wasn't ready.
Perhaps by the time Ashlynn returned he would know enough to serve as a basic sparring partner for her, but even if he trained himself at a brutal pace, he would still possess purely human strength against the witch who had already left human limits behind.
