The days after the sparring sessions settled into a rhythm that felt different from the Academy's rhythm the way home feels different from somewhere else — less structured, more personal, the shape of each day determined by what needed doing rather than what had been scheduled.
Oziel took the knights through their training rotations with the efficiency of someone who had been managing that function for a year and had no intention of stopping simply because the domain's lord had returned. Raze watched the first morning's session from the training ground's edge and found nothing that needed correcting, which was its own kind of satisfaction.
