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“As you can see, we come with nearly a
thousand warriors.”
“I only see half of that.”
Yaretzi, Chimalli, and Damien were all seated
in Cisneros’ large tent with his two sons. He seemed to be letting the eldest
son do most of the talking.
“What are talking about?”
“I mean, you brought men and women. Meaning
that you only brought half of what you think.”
Damien sat back, his arms crossed over his
chest; he noticed that Cisneros also had an amused expression. Clearly Ciccero
had much to learn about women despite his being a grown man. Yaretzi stood from
her crouched position.
“I would take ten of my best female warriors
for every thirty of your males.” Her hips swung to the side, and her hands
planted on them in a gesture that Damien was beginning to be familiar with. He
was just glad that it wasn’t at him this time.
“Is that so.” Ciccero stood as well. His
arms, while not overly large, were corded with lean muscle. He clearly had had
practice swinging a sword.
“Yes.” Damien watched as Yaretzi’s eyes
sparked. “I challenge you to a duel. First blood wins.” She shrugged, “Nothing
serious. Nothing that you can’t handle, I am sure.”
Ciccero looked to his father, a questioning
look on his face.
“Well, you’re the one who claims women can’t
fight. This would be the time to learn.” Cisneros looked past his son to wink
at Damien before sipping from his drink.
“I accept. First blood wins.” He smiled his
teeth glinting. “I will try not to mar that pretty face of yours that my
brother likes.”
“And I will try not to take your manhood
away.” Yaretzi spun on her heel and left the tent leaving Ciccero with a
confused look on his face.
Cisneros coughed, “She means…” he pointed
down the middle of his son’s body until a look of understanding came across
Ciccero’s features.
Without another word Ciccero stomped out of
the tent, followed by Crosns, leaving Chimalli, Damien, and Cisneros.
“Well this should be interesting.” Chimalli
stood and stretched before leaning to grab some nuts and fruit off of the
table. “Better take some snacks.”
Damien followed after Cisneros, and blinked
rapidly while his eyes adjusted to the bright light. When he could see again,
he found a ring of people already around where Yaretzi and Ciccero stood. The
young man stood with several of his mates, while Yaretzi stood alone, fastening
her long handled blade together. Damien calmly walked up to her.
“Please go easy on him, we do want to make
friends.” She smiled fiercely up at him before leaning up closer to him.
“He won’t know what hit him.” She turned and
met him for a passionate kiss before she broke away. He walked out of the ring
to where Nairn had wedged himself so that he could see as well.
‘She’s going to whoop him.’
‘Yep.’
‘Be fun to watch though.’
‘Yep.’
‘At least you got better, I was worried that
you would never amount to much of a swordsman.’
‘Hey!’ He swatted at Nairn’s nose.
‘Well she was always beating you. Until you
learned to read the ground and how people move.’ Nairn moved his head and nearly
knocked over Chimalli. ‘Ooh it’s starting!’
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