For a moment, I found myself wondering why everyone had seemed so tense.
Then a woman seated farther down the table spoke.
"I have a concern about the training."
Caleb stopped.
Jason looked toward her.
"What concern?"
She hesitated briefly before answering.
"In my opinion, the training is beginning to take a turn in some areas."
The room became quieter.
She continued carefully.
"Especially with the children."
I frowned slightly.
"Some of them are simply too young for the level of training they are being subjected to," she said.
I remembered the training ground from the previous night.
I had seen children there.
At the time, I had assumed that perhaps they were older than they appeared or that the training was lighter than what I had witnessed from a distance. I had even appr
