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It’s a full moon tonight.

For most packs, it calls for a celebration. Dark Woods is no different.

I’ve been going strong with my training these past few days. Just when I think I’m getting the hang of it, Naya switches things up. I don’t think she likes me very much. Though I do seem to be getting better, now I can punch and kick like nobody’s business. After my first breakthrough, I realized that if I thought about it really hard, going through the moves, the form, the maneuvers, and every step in detail in my head, I learn faster.

In other words, even when I'm not at the arena I think about training, what I learned that day, the mistakes I made, and how can I get better.

If anyone had told me a month ago that I’d be able to do a roundhouse kick, throw my weight back without thought, just to break the hold of my enemy, or do a backflip? I’d laugh and call them crazy.

But I can do all that and more. I am getting there.

I’ve been to the compound a few times with Oliver after tra