How To Be A Badass Witch: Book Three by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649713827
Publisher: Lmbpn Publishing
Published: 2020-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Kim pointed at the dummy’s left leg. “You must kick it just so. When he kicks toward your head high, you kick his leg low. Make him fall.”

Kera inhaled. The concept wasn’t hard to grasp, thanks to her training in Shotokan karate, and her opponent was a dummy rather than a living, breathing, potentially dangerous human being.

Mrs. Kim was proving to be an extremely strict and demanding teacher, putting Kera through a gauntlet of tests and demanding vast numbers of repetitions until Kera’s form was perfect. The woman’s somewhat limited English made it difficult for her to explain things in detail.

In some ways, she was the best instructor Kera had ever had.

Kera ducked and pivoted in one motion, her mind in four or five places at once, trying to pull the many factors at play into a single cohesive action: the successful execution of a difficult move. She imagined that the dummy was in motion and wanted to kill or maim her. Then she swung her leg around behind the figure, and the upper front junction of her foot and ankle crashed into its leg near the bottom of the calf.

The dummy toppled violently to the floor. Kera, in the same motion, rolled aside and clear, then sprang back up into a fighting stance. She stared at the fallen mannequin.

Mrs. Kim nodded. “Good. Now, again.”

Kera frowned but set the dummy on its feet and obeyed.

As she continued to drill kicks and punches, throws and takedowns, clinches and submission holds, blocks and evasions and general exercises in stance, movement, and mindset, she found herself doing better despite her growing fatigue. It was as though her short lifetime’s worth of frustration and anger were finding an outlet through her actions.

She had been a cheerleader, and then a computer science major, a stereotypical rich girl and then a bartender. Wrath and discontent at the crimes perpetrated on innocent people around her had always bothered her conscience. At the same time, she had always felt useless, as though she was supposed to sit back and do stupid rich-girl things rather than helping anyone or accomplishing anything constructive.

These days, at long last, she was taking on both of those issues at once.

Kera knew the day’s training session was nearly over. They had been going at it for over two hours, with Mrs. Kim sometimes demonstrating, though her illness made it hard for her to do much and almost impossible to spar with the girl. The older lady was getting tired.

For all her strictness and perfectionism, though, there was a foundation of gentleness and care in everything she said and did. When Kera stole a glance at her, she saw the woman’s eyes glowing with pride.

Near the end of the session, Mrs. Kim demonstrated a low-effort throw, instructing her how to move with the takedown and fall correctly to avoid injury.

Kera moved toward the older woman, jabbing toward her face, and found her arm and wrist seized. She was spun around, and the moment she

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