Chapter 3 Part 2 Raikas's First Fight

I decided I wanted to see his first fight anyway and was in the colonnade with the oddsmen, the scribblers from The Watcher of the Ring, and other gladiators and hangers-on. The low-chainers with their thin wreaths of gold gleaming sparse around their necks, showing their teeth at each other like a pack of barely restrained dogs. The high-chainers were quieter, lone wolves staying out of the dominance scrum, only snarling quietly when the dogs showed too much fang too close.

The scribblers had