The crowd of cadets was already so impressed by his dance, and some from Galka were cheering him for bringing more honor to the Galka War Academy, but when he withdrew eight blades and held them so effortlessly between his fingers. The place went deathly silent. Before mummers broke out.
"Aren't we supposed to stop at the third?"
"The fifth and the sixth taught in the war college. Aren't they?"
"Are students from Galka being taught ahead of the required syllabus?" another groaned with accusation.
