Chapter 19: An Unexpected Alliance

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Training with Gaston has been the most tiring thing I've ever had to do, and after living with my mother for most of my life that is saying a lot

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Training with Gaston has been the most tiring thing I've ever had to do, and after living with my mother for most of my life that is saying a lot. I thought that he would go a little easy on me, but I was wrong. I'm starting to think he is simply a difficult man to do things with.

Despite being fairly old, mildly crippled, and half-drunk most days the man makes me work. Run three laps around the entire village or shoot ten arrows through that hole in the sign right there and sometimes he appears out of nowhere and attacks me with a sword and I have to grab mine and defend myself. Yes, I got a sword, it is very cool.

If I don't do things properly his punishments are even more tiring than the exercises. He made me do one hundred push-ups yesterday because I didn't run my track fast enough. If I didn't do the push-up right I had to start counting from number one all over again. After three hours I managed to get all of them done and my arms felt like they were about to fall off.

Adrien, that little fucker, vividly enjoyed watching me struggle to move my arms. I never wanted to hit someone so bad, thankfully his mother stopped him and gave me some kind of makeshift ice pack to put on my arms. He is such a child but over the last few weeks, he has slowly become one of the greatest friends I've ever had. Scratch that he is the only friend I've ever had. Being a girl who doesn't follow the social norm doesn't get you a lot of friends. I might have had one but she fell into the rabbit hole of acting like a proper lady as everyone else in my class did.

Only Gaston's training and Adrien's teasing haven't been the only things on my mind. The woman in the window. The one who could be in danger from the Beast. The one who I have to save. Which is why I have decided that today is the day.

I got an all-clear from Sophie allowing me to take the day off. She thinks I will be helping Gaston move some things around in his house.

With my bow and arrows as well as a few knives safely attached to my body I mount Dante who in my opinion has gotten too used to spoilt in the stables.

I nudge him into a walk and together we make our way into the woods.

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