"Go on! You think I'll accept that last set? It was flimsy and pathetic, so give me another!"
The sharp bark from Yao Meirong made me want to growl at her for being so damn strict with everything, yet I held myself back and just grabbed ahold of the boulder once more, lifting it from the ground and raising it slowly and steadily up to my midriff.
It was a heavy, unwieldy chunk of stone that constantly wanted to slip free from my fingers and plummet back down to the ground, but there was not a way in hell I was going to fail this yet again, not after what happened last time...
Just thinking about the sharp whack to the back of the head from the older woman as she disciplined me for being so pathetically weak made me shiver, though that shiver almost cost me as I tried to 'bury' my fingers into the stone to keep it from sliding free.
