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Afternoon training consisted of sword training. She grinned happily when she saw the weapons laid down on the table and she was about to grab one of shining blades when a wooden stick slapped the back of her hand.

She withdraw with a hiss. It was Master. "You're not going to touch a blade," he said then threw the stick in the air and caught it at the other end. He offered the hilt to Feng Xuan. "You're starting with the basics."

She resisted the urge to pout and grabbed the wooden stick. For days, she had been slashing at air. In different poses the Master probed her shoulders, elbows, knees, back, and stomach into place. She remembered most of what she had learned when she was younger. But that was not enough.

Her arms and legs burned with exhaustion that come nighttime, she was pretty she was half-dead when she closed her eyes for a few hours of sleep. She had been eating a lot of meat to develop her muscles and she was convinced that she was gaining more.