Chapter 87

On Monday, we started our new exercise regimen. Maine Fitness in the morning for weights. Since it wasn’t raining, the weights came after we did a run outside, followed by lunch and Brigitte’s new ‘Street Defense’ class. In addition to the instructor who’d signed up for it, four other students had signed up for the new class, two male, two female. Brunswick Martial Arts had rubber knives and guns we could use for disarming drills. For the first afternoon, that’s all anyone practiced, disarming drills with knives. Over and over again until you could do it smoothly and without thinking. Since Simone and I had done some of this work already, we were often paired with one of the new students. Conor was paired with the instructor.

We didn’t go into them yet, but Brigitte and Conor showed some advanced disarming techniques. I had to admit, some of those would probably work better if you healed fast after getting cut, but even then, it was better than dying, survival being key.