Shady

She hissed as pain shot through her side. It needed to be done. She knew it did. But she still didn't trust him. "Do you fucking know what you're doing?"

"Oh, feeling just peachy," she snarled between clenched teeth. She reached to pull her tunic up so it wouldn't be in the way, but inhaled sharply when pain stabbed through ...

She didn't bother answer. Where the fuck else am I going to go? She swallowed hard, focusing on keeping her breathing as steady as she could. It hurt , and ...

She looked down and saw that blood had already soaked through her ripped tunic, both at her side and on her arm. She tried to get her sword back in ...

Jerica's eyes went wide as she stared at the creature. It almost looked like a giant scorpion -- easily the size of their horses -- with a giant stinger that ...

Jerica laughed again when he entirely missed her sarcasm. Again. "Well, hopefully we'll get your archery skills up to par soon. Never know when we're gonna need them next."

Jerica laughed. "Man, why didn't I think of that."

"Yeah..." Jerica sighed, thinking a moment. "I mean, there's pros and cons to everything. It's stressful when you're running low on arrows. And, you get shot at more than swordsmen ...

Jerica laughed. "Well... I honestly don't know much about teaching horsemanship. It's one of those things that I can do but don't really know how I do it, you know?" ...

"Uh, yeah, close." She reached forward and fixed it for him. "Alright, now you never, ever, ever fire the bow unless there's an arrow on the string. You can break ...

"You did it!" She grinned at him, thankful that he seemed proud of himself. Finally. Maybe this meant he'd be motivated to actually get good, eventually. "Okay, we'll vary our ...

"I know," Jerica answered, forcing her voice to be gentle as well. Me too. She kept that part to herself. "You keep trying to control Mellie, instead of work with ...

"We don't need you to be a master," Jerica answered, patting Mellie's face again. "I just need you to not fall off if we need to go quick again. Because ...

"Would you like to stay here for years , Elias?" She inhaled as she turned to look at him, barely keeping in an impatient sigh. She tried to remind herself ...

Teaching Elias how to ride a horse was getting exhausting. It'd been a few days of trying to teach him how to trot and now he didn't look quite as ...