The next morning felt awful and I could tell by looking at everyone that we were in for another bad day and all the fighters were already standing around with their shields and weapons before it even got light out and Jax didn't bother talking much.

He just stood there and said "Yesterday you figured out how to hold your spot and today you're going to learn how to keep holding it when everything goes wrong" and his voice was loud and sharp and nobody moved until he told us to start.

Elias ...