"Go on," she said. "Do it now before the fear settles in and you have to work harder to overcome it."
She pushed the girl from Candor forward, then shoved Nico into line behind the boy Kon had helped onto the train. She didn't want to leave any of those three up here with Eric. Really, she didn't want to leave anyone up here with Eric, but Nico was part of her team right now and Christina and the boy might already have 'unsatisfactory' stamps on them, so they got her extra attention.
Nico shrieked when she went over the edge, but Cassie could make a good argument that at least half of it was fury.
Cassie made a show of jostling for position with the rest of the recruits, but since they technically needed to impress while she just needed to pass, she mostly let them win. Unfortunately, being last netted her some personal attention from Eric.
"You aren't taking this seriously, recruit," he snapped, shoving her back when she stepped up to the edge. She let him shove her, for the sake of her cover, though that didn't stop her from narrowing her eyes. He was still talking, snarling really, but all she heard was the posturing of a bully who'd been humiliated and was trying to soothe his damaged ego.
On one hand, she could take it. On the other, she was an Amazon and she didn't have to take it.
(Diana could have sat through the yapping of the sad little man with nothing but pity for how he'd been twisted, but Diana wasn't here.)
"Let me show you how seriously I'm taking this, sir," she said, and tackled him off the edge of the building.
It was a long way down. Long enough for her to push away from Eric so that they landed in the net separately. Cassie bounced up first and crawled off the net.
"Thanks for showing me how it's done, sir!" she said, voice sugary sweet.
No need to humiliate him in public again, after all. Better to do it in private, where he could only gnaw his own liver.
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"Go on," she said. "Do it now before the fear settles in and you have to work harder to overcome it."
She pushed the girl from Candor forward, then shoved Nico into line behind the boy Kon had helped onto the train. She didn't want to leave any of those three up here with Eric. Really, she didn't want to leave anyone up here with Eric, but Nico was part of her team right now and Christina and the boy might already have 'unsatisfactory' stamps on them, so they got her extra attention.
Nico shrieked when she went over the edge, but Cassie could make a good argument that at least half of it was fury.
Cassie made a show of jostling for position with the rest of the recruits, but since they technically needed to impress while she just needed to pass, she mostly let them win. Unfortunately, being last netted her some personal attention from Eric.
"You aren't taking this seriously, recruit," he snapped, shoving her back when she stepped up to the edge. She let him shove her, for the sake of her cover, though that didn't stop her from narrowing her eyes. He was still talking, snarling really, but all she heard was the posturing of a bully who'd been humiliated and was trying to soothe his damaged ego.
On one hand, she could take it. On the other, she was an Amazon and she didn't have to take it.
(Diana could have sat through the yapping of the sad little man with nothing but pity for how he'd been twisted, but Diana wasn't here.)
"Let me show you how seriously I'm taking this, sir," she said, and tackled him off the edge of the building.
It was a long way down. Long enough for her to push away from Eric so that they landed in the net separately. Cassie bounced up first and crawled off the net.
"Thanks for showing me how it's done, sir!" she said, voice sugary sweet.
No need to humiliate him in public again, after all. Better to do it in private, where he could only gnaw his own liver.