Chapter 5
I walk to the centre of the mat " clove senvia, age 13, specialises in knife throwing" I say I get the cue to go ahead I turn to the knife station and grab 5 knives and 2 on the table next to me. I turn to see if my trainer is still watching he is. They all are. I line up my aim and a board lights up. I am being timed on speed and aim. Agility is later on. I hit the board right in the centre on the bulls eye. Another lights up I throw it in the hear and my finally one in my hand I hit the broad on the fore head the lights on the board flicker and it goes in. I hear a round of applause behind me. I walk over board collect my knives and walk over to the agility I left one knife in. On purpose if the trainers to take it out cato will see the knife right in the heart. " Clove! dont worry about doing your other weapons grading we have changed the age category for it" my trainer says. It's a good thing to I had completely forgot. I line up my aim again and throw it but the boards are moving I get one in the shoulder one in the stomach and one in the heart. I don't want to throw the other two as there is know where else vital to aim but them I see the head. I throw two at time one hits the fore head the other lands right in the throat. Then I walk away to a simulator which watches my moment as it fire fake arrows and spears at me I avoid all of the by running jumping and rumblings under over and around them. I leave the room with nothing else said.As I walk out I hear catos name called he looks at my board and does nothing else but Stare at the one in the fore head heart and throat. We aren't really aloud to watch the other careers grading but I hide in a corner where only he can see my. He hasn't noticed yet " cato lark. Age 16 specialising in sword and weights" he walks over to the manicens and look at them. He picks up his sword and swings it behind his left shoulder and cuts the body open and from its shoulder to its hip and turns to cut the other manicens head off then jabs it in the rib. Then I sees me and smiles slightly. Then walks to the weights. I run away because he has seen me I didn't think he would. He was amazing at it. He differently impressed me
On my way home I hear a voice " clove. Clove wait!" I turn and no surprise it's cato " hey I saw you watching my grading. What score do you think i will get?" I look to him " I would give you a 12/12" I say with a cheeky smile " haha thanks I saw your boards. Your really good. Maybe you could teach me sometime?" He stands I front of me and looks into my eyes i can't help but saying yes but instead I say " I got a new sword maybe you could teach my. I would really love to cut the head off a manicen" I say. He laughs " I will be at the training centre on Thursday to collect my results. Maybe we could go in to the sword training but for 30 mins and I could teach you and you could return the favour" he say I can now tell he does like me. He is flirting. " sure. Ill see you there. " I say " great. I live over there" he points to a house that is a just a row down from mine. " I live there" I say. " we could walk to training together some time?" " I would love that" I say. Then he smiles and walks away.
