Chapter 83 The Garden Of Healers

• Pale light threaded through the frost when Watcher Unit — Squad One — stepped onto the training field. Nine rows of recruits stood at attention, ten in each line, faces raw with early-morning cold and the tension that comes from being watched. An officer from Central Frontier Command paced before them, voice projecting across the cleared ground.
• “Today you begin formal training under the newly formed instructor squads,” he barked. “You will learn not only to survive, but to keep others alive when everything else fails. Pay attention. Lives depend on what you take from these instructors.”
• Heads turned as the Squad One team approached. The officer saluted and introduced them, crisp and formal.