The Additional Condition

The next day, training was far worse than Ellie had imagined. She did not know if it was because she grew weak, because she was recovering, or if the training was naturally this harsh in this pack, but training with Jen had to be the hardest thing she had ever done. Ever since the early morning, the pair had undergone a number of sessions. With each trial performed, whenever Ellie showed even a bit of exhaustion, or lost a bit of momentum, Jen practically whipped her back to shape, paying no heed to any injuries that were still healing. Ellie couldn’t even catch a break in between all this training, and she was way past her limit.

It did not help that they started their training so early in the morning, with a light meal for Ellie. Thus, she did not have much stamina to go through the regime. To make things worse, just when they thought she was done with training for the day, as it would turn out, all she had done were supposedly ‘simple warmups’, in preparation for some sparring sess