Among the competitors, a young woman with green hair and lupine ears raised her chin slightly, her green eyes serious. She moved unhurriedly, choosing a space a little away from the center of the room when Reinhart asked them to spread out around the room as they wished before starting to fight.
In her mind, Reinhart's words were still etched.
"Improvise, learn, fight as you can..."
That's what she planned to do. She had been through enough fights to know that the people in this room could not be taken lightly, although no one managed not to wince during Reinhart's assessment.
In her eyes, each of the other six contenders for this spot were just as strong as her, some of them perhaps even more so, and she, being an archer, was at a disadvantage because she had to use a wooden sword. Her eyes moved from one competitor to the next until they finally landed on one of them who was watching her too.
