The students look a little strange, and suddenly she notices why. The have aged, to be the same age as her. Even the four who had already fallen, in the five years since being blessed as a paladin of the maimed god, where here, and they were acting exactly like they did as squires.<br/><br/>An instructor, a retired paladin that she vaguely remembered, old, and missing his right hand, walks out and yells for the squires to take their training partners and begin endurance sparring. She remembers this part of training, near the end of it, where the paladin would spar against each other until all the paladins but one had been 'defeated'. When their partner was 'killed' they would grab one of the ones that had already 'won', and continue sparring. She remebered being the second best, beaten by the other female paladin, due to an intricate manueaver that had lifted her shield too high, leaving her gut exposed. This was simulating a real battle, where she wold be forced to fight until she was either defeated, or was victorious.<br/><br/>Her partner was a brute of a paladin, mean tempered, and he acted like he owned the world. He was the first of the paladins that fell, and his expression was as nasty now as it had been then. He set himself, slammed his sword and shield together, and waited for her salute.<br/><br/>Sariah looks confused, and said, "What is happening? My sight is blocked."