CHAPTER TWO
I stare at the small broken mirror they gave me at the shield in my collarbone. The pain is still great.
"You look like a natural now," Shadow beams.
"Shadow, will she be needing extra work it just training?" The woman strolls over to her, away from Alec.
Shadow studies me, a deep expression on her face. I can see now why her name was Shadow. As she thinks her eyes become darker, almost a black-green and seem distant.
"She should be fine. Just make sure he's with her," she says, motioning to Alec.
He looks up from his shoes and nods. "Should we go now?" he asks. Shadow nods and bids goodbye, walking back through where she came, leaving us alone.
Alec reaches to me and helps me up. "Let's go." I try to walk but I trip and almost fall. He catches me, holding under my arm.
I limp through the hallway, hanging onto his shoulder. The tap of our shoes echoes on the concrete floor.
"It's just right here," Alec says, stopping by the concrete wall, which contains a huge white metal door with small light surrounding the outside.
He twists the handle of the door, making it creak open.
The the door opens and immediately I smell miss and fresh earth. When my eyes adjust to the brighter light I'm in awe.
Holy shit!
The room is circle, the top into a dome, letting the sun shine through. But it isn't even a room at all.
Along the wall, talk trees grow out of dark soil. In the middle there are two large trees in the middle of a small stone lining.
There were targets and dummies lined around each other, as if they're a station. Mist all if it is two large trees that have looks like plastic rocks bolted on.
Everything looks so pretty as if you could blink and all if it would go away, but at the same time it looks dangerous. Any wrong move and you could injure yourself.
"This way," Alec directs, leading me out if the room and into the open archway to the right.
I sit down in the small bed in the corner of the talk room. I see my cuts are minimal and my bruises are bearable as he bandages them up.
"It might be painful a while, but if you're going to make it here, I suggest you bear it," Alec says lifting my off the bed.
"Even though it your first day here, you came in later than everyone else, so you'll start training now."
He directs me out of the room and back into the one before. Instead if walking through he leads me into it, around the two big trees.
Behind them I notice square targets hanging at least seven feet up off the ground. We are the only one back here so he leads me to the middle target.
A small table separates each target stretch. He picks up in if the fund if the small metal table and loads it, making a click.
"Safety's off," he states, holding out the gun for me. I take it from his hand and weigh it in my hands.
"Shoot."
My eyes dart up from the gun and look at him in suprise. "You expect me to know how to shoot one if these?"
"You'd be surprised how much you actually know how to do," he infers, stepping back to give me space. "Start with the basics. Position."
Surprisingly, I spread my feet shoulder width apart and hold the gun up at my shoulder height with both hands.
