_Rowena's POV_
The crowd had opinions before I even got in the car.
I heard them from the staging area. Not the words exactly, just the tone of them, that particular mix of amusement and dismissal that people used when they had already decided on an outcome and were just waiting for the track to confirm it. A woman in the competition.
A woman facing off against Kaelen Varkos in the first round. The commentary wrote itself and most of the crowd had already written it.
I purposely chose Kaelen as my first opponent. It was a 1v1 process for the first rounds before the general race.
I was going to use this medium to punish Kaelen dearly.
I put my helmet on and got in the Ferrari.
The interior settled around me the way it had during my practice runs at Silas's private tra
