Holmberg, D K - The Chain Breaker 02 - The Jade Egg by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2020-10-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The cleared section of the main room of the Dragon made it easy for Gavin to practice. A fire smoldered in the hearth, giving a hint of light, and he moved through his patterns in the space he’d cleared out in the room. He needed to keep his skills sharp. There was a time when he wouldn’t have needed practice. There was a time when he never would’ve worried about losing any of his skills, but that had been before he had come here.

That had been before he had stayed in Yoran for as long as he had, and now he felt as if his skills were starting to diminish, if only a little bit. He didn’t want to those skills to diminish. He’d worked incredibly hard to acquire them, suffering for much longer than he ever would have believed that he would’ve been willing to do, to gain those skills.

Which was why he had to work at them, honing them for him to remember how to flow from movement to movement.

“You couldn’t sleep, either?”

Gavin spun out of a Noru fighting stance and turned to see Wrenlow coming down the stairs, pausing at the bottom of the stairs and looking out at him. He held a lantern in one hand and rubbed sleep from his eyes with his free hand. His notebook was tucked up under his arm, and a pen was stuffed behind one ear.

“It’s not a matter of not being able to sleep,” Gavin said.

“You’re down here, though.”

“I’m down here,” Gavin agreed.

Wrenlow took a seat at one of the tables, and he kicked back, resting his heels on a chair next to him. “Don’t let me keep you.”

Gavin grunted. “You intend to watch?”

“I don’t get to see you fight that often, so why shouldn’t I see you practice?”

“You don’t want to see me fight,” Gavin said.

“I don’t necessarily want to be a part of the fighting,” Wrenlow said, smiling slightly, “but at the same time, I don’t want to be left out of it, either.”

Gavin paused and grabbed his shirt off the chair, and he dabbed at his forehead. “Do you feel left out of it?”

“I know my role, Gavin.”

“That wasn’t the question,” Gavin said.

Wrenlow shrugged, and he set his book in front of him, and pulled the pen out from behind his ear. “I can’t deny that I would be interested in learning a little bit more.”

“You want to learn how to fight?”

Wrenlow looked over, and rested his elbows on the table, staring at Gavin for a moment. “With all the things that we do, I’m bound to end up getting in trouble sometime. It wouldn’t hurt to know a little bit more about how to defend myself if it came down to it.”

Gavin took a deep breath, and he nodded.

He should have thought about that before. Wrenlow wasn’t wrong. Gavin did ask quite a bit of him, especially finding information, and learning how to find dangerous people in a city like this put him into a very different type of danger.

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