*22* Training for Knights of the Light

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The gardens were filled with a cacophony of various overlapping sounds, the cries of animals, the voices of students, and the roar of the wind

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The gardens were filled with a cacophony of various overlapping sounds, the cries of animals, the voices of students, and the roar of the wind.  Level II students were shouting over each other, and every now and then someone burst out laughing loudly when their pet did something cute or funny.  Only one person didn't share the enthusiasm of the whole group.  It was Phuwin practicing alone.

“Give me that!” Cooper shouted at his dog, who ran away with his guardian's boot in his teeth, happily wagging his tail.

“Luna, Luna come here, come to me beautiful”.

“Be careful!”

“Chico, where are you?”

“Gemini, your lion! Can you take this little monster away from me?”

“But he just wants to play! He won't hurt you”.

“Maybe it won't hurt me, but it'll tear my monkey apart.”

“It's not true, it's such a nice and cute lion cub, look at it” Gemini tried to convince Joong, pointing with his finger at the lion cub, which had just rolled over on its back and started licking its rear big and fluffy paw.

Fourth called his phoenix by name for the tenth time, but it was sitting on the highest branch of an old, dry, thick willow, as if nothing had happened, it was cleaning its red-gold feathers with its beak, ignoring the calls of its guardian.

Phuwin tried to do it again, but when he missed the target again, he felt resigned and powerless.  He didn't even tell his brothers about it, didn't complain, pretended he didn't need anyone's help, but the truth was quite different.  He sighed heavily and sat down on the grass.  He was sorry for many reasons, one of which was that Zee had not given him any pets.  He watched with silent envy as the others trained their animals under Mixxiw's supervision, while he stood in a remote part of the garden and tried to shoot an arrow into the center of a target attached to man-height rectangular bundles of straw.  It didn't work out for him because the bow wasn't his weapon, he didn't feel comfortable with it.  He would rather use a pistol or a sword, even a dagger would be better than that.

Phuwin thought that no one was paying attention to him anyway, so he just sat on the grass and watched the other students of the Academy of the Knights of the Light.  It's been more than 7 months since the last expected candidate for Knight appeared here, but so far little has changed except that the exams selected the 12 most outstanding students who were sent to the next stage of study.  The others had yet to complete their Level I training. Phuwin remembered that he, Dunk, Joong and Pond had also previously had to stay and wait for the second round of eliminations, in which luckily all the exams passed.

Not much has happened in the last 7 months.

Mainly trained with weapons, without any weapons, stele practice, rune drawing (initially they did it by drawing all the marks on paper with pencils or pens so as not to accidentally activate the wrong rune, Phu didn't expect it to be so hard)  brewed more potions and learned their uses, looked at the stars and learned astronomy.  There was little time for a good night's sleep and rest, if you included the acting classes that Gun Atthaphan had insisted on taking.

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