Three days passed in the compound before anyone used the word ready out loud, and the person who finally said it was Davin, which surprised everyone including Davin himself.It happened on the morning of the fourth day, in the main practice yard, in the middle of a session that had started as individual skills work and evolved, the way everything the six of them did together seemed to evolve, into something considerably more complex than what any of them had originally intended.It had begun simply enough. Farren running blade drills on the southern end of the yard. Sable working heat control exercises against the stone wall, teaching herself, with the patient, methodical stubbornness that characterized everything she did, to apply thermal pressure at specific depths without surface signature. Lyss standing at the yard's center with her eyes closed and her breathing so slow and even it was almost meditative, her ambient awareness ranging outward across the compound and the mountain an