Chapter 5
The trial consisted of four tasks; hand to hand combat, shooting, knife throwing, and a surprise to finish it off. The last one would probably be way worse than anything else, but the rest were in no way unreasonable or unexpected.
Grace stopped in her tracks when she saw who she was fighting, Clary stood in the fighting ring, literally shaking. She couldn't fight her; it would be like if she fought on of the recruits she used to train. There might only be a two-year age difference, but her whole life had prepared her to fight, and she had gotten good at it.
She spoke to Evelyn, who had taken her from the guard that had brought her breakfast.
"I can't fight her".
"Does a fifteen-year-old scare you? I really would have thought a guard like you would be tougher than that, but I guess I was wrong", remarked Evelyn.
"I might be a terrible person, but I won't fight a child", insisted Grace.
She searched her conscience for something that would justify fighting Clary, but it couldn't be justified by getting accepted. And would these people really accept someone who beat one of their own children?
She had spent enough time with Clary to know she was tough, but she was not as brutal or ripped of conscience as herself. She did not want to fight her, but if she did would she even be able to stop? Her conscience had a tendency to stop caring when the adrenaline was pumping. She did want to become a better person, right? And if she did, would she also have to start taking the right decisions.
"You do realise that you are a child yourself?". Grace nodded in answered, and Evelyn continued with a grin, "It was decided that you would start easy and fight your way towards the top, but I guess we could begin on the top. The only way from the top is down".
"Clary go tell Theo, Noah and Isabell, that Grace only will be fighting Carolina", Evelyn called over to Clary. Her grin just widened, when the crowd that had collected to watch the new girl fight, turned in surprise towards a girl already fighting.
It was a tall and muscular woman. She was strong, she did however seem to lack some speed and hopefully some tactical skills. Not that it would have mattered for the man she fought; he did not stand a chance no matter how slow Carolina was.
A few short moments later, laid the boy on the ground, by the woman's feet. Evelyn gave Grace a wicked grin and whispered to her: "There is only two people from this faction of the organization that have beaten her; Theo and some other girl".
"What's the girl's name?", she looked around at the faces gathering around them to see the fight as she asked.
"Alex, I think. She was one of our best, before she moved closer to centrum to be a part of the faction that oversee the prosses of helping people away from the streets so they can become members".
Alex? Grace's Alex? Grace knew that Alex had somehow found a new "family", and that she had survived. Of course, she had known, she had just assumed yesterday that Alex had always been where she was now. She still had not excepted Alex to be such a good fighter. Alex had acted like Marco and Andrew's superior, so she obviously wasn't on the bottom.
The fact that she would be living in Alex's old home, without Alex slightly sat her out. She heard a yelled and broke free of her thoughts, she had to concentrate, because if she didn't wouldn't she be living anywhere.
Carolina stood confidently waiting for Grace. Grace saw that the woman was strong, it could be to Grace's advantage if Carolina kept relaying to heavily on her strength. It was smart to use your strengths to your advantages, if you do not forget about the rest, and she knew it was easy to get sloppy if you got to cocky.
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