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didn’t take my eyes off of her.
    “ Capir,” she called sharply. One of her guard was by her side in an instant.
    It took me four heartbeats to realize what was going on. It took David even longer. Capir crouched low to the ground and a short sword materialized into his hand.
    “ No!” David finally caught on. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the other three guards step forward to stop him.
    I switched my attention back to Capir. He wasn’t smiling. Instead, his face showed complete concentration and seriousness. I heard the air whooshing in and out of my lungs at an accelerated pace. Neleh wanted me to die.
    Neleh gave the nod. The fight was over before it even began. I didn’t feel the pain of the knife plunging into my stomach, but the shock pulled me up short. I looked up at Capir, who was glaring at me. As if in slow motion, he pulled the blade back out, nodded, and turned to rejoin the guard.
    From somewhere far away I heard David’s voice. “What the hell are you doing?” I saw his face above me, which meant I must be on the ground. I tried to get back up, but David pushed me back. “Don’t move Eva, I’ll fix you right up.”
    “ No you won’t.” Neleh’s voice rang loud and clear, full of authority.
    I turned my head to the side and saw a growing puddle of blood on the ground. I hoped it wasn’t mine. “What are you…?” Emotion cut his words off. “She’s going to die.”
    “ Don’t be so dramatic. Really David. Capir didn’t touch any of her organs.” She sounded disgusted by David’s emotional outburst.
    “ You have gone too far, Neleh.”
    “ Eva has never had to heal herself. In all the fights, she’s never been really injured. Do you honestly think Dominick will be so kind?”
    “ There’s other ways.”
    “ No. We can’t strengthen the blood. We already give her too much. You said so yourself. Her blood has to become stronger on its own.” She came to stand over me. Her pale blond hair hung down in thick curtains. “Practice makes perfect.” Her expression remained stoic. “Eva, can you hear me?”
    I nodded, unable to speak.
    “ Don’t listen to David. You’ve proved him wrong before. Capir will take you to your room and we will monitor you from there. After you’re all better, we’ll try this again.” She smiled, revealing her perfectly white teeth. “ Don’t give in Eva, stay with us,” she said to my mind. Her smile never faltered but I thought I saw worry or fear flash in her eyes.
    David came to my bedside often over the next week. Constantly he was checking on me, making sure I was healing. “It isn’t right,” he muttered that first night.
    I tried to smile, but it probably just looked more like a grimace. “S’ok,” I slurred.
    “ She could have killed you.”
    “ She didn’t even have the sword,” I croaked out.
    David shot me an exasperated look before lifting my shirt to examine the wound. “This whole thing,” he shook his head, “it’s different than I thought it would be.” He smiled sadly and then turned his face.
    It irritated me that he was feeling sorry for me. After all Neleh was just trying to help me. “Are you finished?”
    “ Yeah.” He pulled my shirt back down. “You know Eva…”
    “ She was just trying to help David.” I couldn’t yell at him like I wanted to, but I hoped he could tell how angry I was.
    “ You are just a child.”
    My mouth dropped open in disbelief. “I am not a child.” I coughed from the effort of trying to be angry.
    He looked at me for a long moment and then got up. “I think you’ll be fine, but I still think she went too far this time.” I kept my face turned away from him.
    It took nearly a week before I was able to stand up on my own. It was another week before David gave the go ahead for me to fight again. I never fought the guard again after that, but everyday my skills at combat grew.
    And every day, my blood grew stronger. Every night, before I returned to my cell, Neleh would