“Take them”. Head Guard Umber ordered.“Of course, Head Guard”. Before Guard Chou Ferk finished Head Guard Umber disappeared from view.“Walk ...in ten rows!” Guard Chou Ferk barked. “Stand in an orderly fashion beside the railway!”It was a short walk, but Guard Chou Ferk still took advantage of it to say a lot.“On the Rakmon Penitentiary Star the worldly attribute and elemental energies are cumbersome, refining, controlling and improving the understanding over them are nigh impossible. Even if your. There was a spot beside the lake to the west of the tower that I ran to, a rocky prominence that rose up out of the land around it, jutting out into the lake at the same time. There was a single small and stunted tree that grew at the very tip of the prominence and a small flat knoll, covered in hardy mountain grasses. We ran there again today, and again when we arrived, I practiced the forms I had been taught, replaying the fights I'd been in so far in my life. While I did, I let my magic run. I turned down the path I hated most, into the woods and darkness. You followed me and picked up your pace so that you were right behind me. I heard you so slowly looked behind me and threw my full eyelashes. In that second I got a good look at you. Dark well kept hair, piercing green eyes, much taller than my small 5 foot 6, you being at least 6. You were only in a check shirt and jeans. You looked older than I, in your late twenties and me only being 19. You pounced. You pushed me into the. ”“Tied to the bed? Fascinating,” Val said, looking smug. “I can’t imagine why such a great liberator of defenseless women would need to resort to bondage-- can you, spacer?”Cas redirected his scowl at Val. He didn’t need input from the uptight upperclass peanut gallery at the moment. But in Mercedes’ case, Cas believed her. He knew from experience that if Mercedes Skybreaker had a shot at you, she took it. No need for subterfuge or cleverness when you’d taken the only gun on board.Pushing past.