bonus chapterof hexes and swords

Eldridge buzzed post-rally triumph, but the anti intellectual uncivilized mutts still simpered. Zack, football oaf, mocked occult club anew: Vicky:Grumbles to herself as she carries her papers andfolders close to her chest focusing on prepping for assignments and lessons than sports and todays assignment is she was randomly chosen to cover for a class. Bloody hell, this is not what i chose to put up with when i was in university.

Vicky's violet eyes iced. Revenge brewed. Next lit class: bamboo shinai gleamed on desk. Gasps rippled.

"Darlings," she drawled posh, "duty calls. All subjects, aye? Swordplay forged classics."

Lies smooth as silk. Zack smirked. "Bring it, teach."

She donned cosplay: Captain Eveline Bullseye one of her favorite young adult books in high school. Black cape swirled, eyepatch jaunty, tricorn hat, boots gleaming. Shinai twirled icy grace.

Quotes flew: "'En garde!' Musketeers cried. Athos parried D'Artagnan's thrust – finesse over brute." Demo: Zack lunged clumsy. Vicky sidestepped, shinai cracked wrist – not breaking, bruising. "Hamlet dueled Laertes: poison tip, fatal folly."

Class froze. Zack swung wild. Parry. Riposte to thigh. "Ivanhoe's lists: valor, not vapid vigor." No wins. She dismantled all – poise lethal.

Reveal dropped: “ Used to take swordfighing as part of extracuriculars never thought it’d beuseful but here we are my dear."

Fear deepened. Whispers: "Blackwood fences? We're doomed." Vicky then glares apathetically as she overheard it immedaitly causing overkill in shivers in an already cold room.

Shinai tossed apathetic. "Wand and pen mightier than sword." Chalk snapped. "Dismissed."

Home, cape shed, she curled with kiddos, Edward's lap, Spooky purring, Edgar croaking. Wine swirled. Even Elizabeth's barbs pleasant company compared to that lot" Vicky muttered. "Students? Barbarians. Family? Bliss and her costume and shinai is put in display in the gallery room of the home where edgar the raven playfully perks on it.