[i]"If you can try, then you can try,"[/i] Janius said. [i]"Be aware, Julan, what your grandfather says is worth repeating. It will be a real fight with real weapons. You will have to fight as hard as if your life depended on it. That will not be the same as sparring. Do [/i]you[i] believe you can do that?"[/i]

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Rhazii was quiet again. He held an unconfident frown.

He shrugged. "I'll have to eventually."

It was a dodge that even he would admit was ineffective in the face of his own mother.