129 LIEUTENANT COLONEL AVERY II

From that day onwards, whenever a training commence, they would see her having a close combat with Brown. If it was their vacant time, they would see them talking under the flame tree, laughing the worries of the world away from them.

"You don't have to train him so hard, you know." Major General Calhoun spoke to her one time.

"Why not? I don't see anything wrong with what I'm doing. He needed to protect himself. He can't just trust his life to anyone."

"Oi! Oi! That's too much. Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it will happen to everyone else."

"Right. It might not happen to everyone but it already happened to him. I am taking care of him as a brother. I won't let him put his life in the hands of others." She made a respectful salute and left with a stern face.