The next morning after breakfast I head out of the room and tell the first guard I see that I want to fight a beast. The guard salutes me and leads me down and out of the castle, we exit through the back and enter into the training yard. The yard is a square box, the castle on one side with stables opposite, the other two sides are barracks for the soldiers.
The training yard is simply a sandlot, raked regularly, and bracketed by a stone walkway. Once word is spread that I am ready to battle fencing is brought out and placed around the edges of the sand creating a pen. I enter the pen and wait as a caged beast is brought out.
The beast they bring out is a monstrous wolf, this one has four legs unlike the six legged ones I've gotten used to. It is bigger than the wolves I have seen so far, well other than Great Mother Wolf. As the soldiers bring the cage to the edge of the pen all I can see in the wolf's eyes is anger.
