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“Is anyone going to tell us why we just walked out of Battle Brief?” Cat asks, a few steps behind me.
“Violet has a look in her eyes,” Rhiannon explains, keeping up at my side.
“The same one she had before the Squad Battle last year,” Sawyer says.
“She’s onto something, and from our experience, you just roll with it,” Rhiannon finishes.

“Aren’t you going to tell me how brilliant that idea was?”
Tairn scoffs. “I chose you last year for that brilliance, and now you’d like to be congratulated like it’s something new? How odd.”
“You’re impossible to impress.”
“I’m a dragon, a Black Morningstartail. The descendent of—”
“Yeah, yeah.” I cut him off before he makes me recite his entire lineage.

Tairn quickly locates [our squad], and riders scurry as he drops to an abrupt landing.
“You could have crushed someone,” I lecture.
“Could have, but alas, they moved.”

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“Nevertheless, I’ll be staying,” Kaori retorts. “Power must always be kept in check, don’t you think, Major Varrish?”
“Are you accusing me of abusing my power where this cadet is concerned, Colonel Kaori?” Varrish moves to step toward us, but my bag is in the way.
“Oh, no.” Kaori shakes his head. “I think you abuse your power in general.”