Battered Warriors - Part 6

The burns on his fingers made him almost wish that he was already dead, but the exhilaration from landing that jump was almost enough to cancel it out. As annoyed as Vol was, he still managed to smile. It was a feat of climbing that he would never have been able to perform as a child, in his clumsiness. He was certain if the other children of his town could have seen him now, they would have been jealous.

Of course, Vol was well aware that it was not thanks to his climbing skill that he was able to overcome that gap so quickly. It was simply because he was monstrously strong, and because he'd worked to train that agility of his. It was still far from being enough that he could quickly scale the walls of Torn Keep in the heat of battle, but at the very least it was something.