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The man had seen his approach.

[color=cd5c5c]"Hey, I am Leo, and are you having a good time tonight?"[/color] Leo asked after finishing off his water. [color=cd5c5c]"It is nice we are having this before training starts tomorrow. I do not know what to expect since I am new here. So what is your name, and are you a new camper like me or a veteran?"[/color]

Friendly.  Seemed friendly enough.

[color=daa520]“Paul.  Pretty quiet night.”[/color]  He extended a hand at the other man’s approach.

[color=daa520]“This is all pretty new to me too.  Just got here within the last hour.”[/color]

So… training wasn’t a secret.  These people had been warned of what lie in store for them as well, just as he had.  Perhaps not as early as he had, but some had been told all the same.

He liked his place by the bonfire, it certainly seemed like the place to be, from his perspective.  It gave him a good view of most everyone in attendance at this party, even if it had what the drawback of having his back to the main entrance to the campsite.  But everything has it’s pros and cons, and at this point his goal was absorbing as much as he could on his fellow campers at rest as possible.

Liquor had been flowing, and it made for good ‘social lubricant’ and left people more at ease with their own inhibitions.  There was much he could learn here, without people having their ‘walls’ up quite so high.

Even if Pallas himself found it difficult to reduce his even an inch.

Unless he was mistaken there were about three dozen in attendance… possibly more unseen elsewhere around the camp, not in the main field.

People eating at tables.  The bar.  The dance floor.  Ice skating.

He had a line across all of it.

And with his positioning, his proximity to the fire, shrouding him in shadow, he was fairly certain that he could see any and all before they’d see him as well.

If he had time to scout the location beforehand he wouldn’t have picked any other spot than where he was right now.  It was perfectly suited for purpose.

And it was why he could see a figure making his way over from the ice skating rink now.  He’d looked back over his shoulder once or twice, but he was getting close enough now that Pallas new he’d soon be visible, even through the partial darkness.

[color=daa520]“So, how about you?  Looking forward to this training tomorrow, or nervous?”[/color]  He returned conversation to Leo.

Leo was similar in height, but seemed leaner, if not less muscular.  He suspected he had a few inches on Pallas in reach, if it came to it.

Meanwhile, something told him that the second man who was approaching, wasn’t nervous in the least.  He carried himself with a strength in his gait.  With a weight that Pallas himself was well familiar with.  But he was curious about the general sentiment of the rest of the campers.

Anything to have him coming into the training sessions with potential competitors sight unseen.


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