Field Exercise (Flash Fiction Fridays #64)

Timmy liked to be honest with himself. After all, lying to yourself usually ended in blood, tears, and all sorts of unpleasantness. That was why he was only too happy to admit that he was very much enjoying himself right now.

Students at the Academy were the best of the best, and that meant testing them wasn’t always easy. Setting aside oddities like Katie who was a recognised war hero despite being a teenager, it wasn’t that unusual for Academy students to have experience in dealing with bandit...