S.O.S and sore thighs

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Raven was all but limping when she returned to the main hall. She was carrying the pain from her impromptu ballet lesson, which did not agree with her usually tense frame. All the same, she couldn't afford to show undue weakness. After seeing the tense exchange between Amara and Leech, she knew that her roommate was heavily invested in her wellbeing and how she was adapting to the training regime as a whole she did not want to spit in the face of all their effort so far. She was usually one to skate under the radar but not here. She was the weak link in an otherwise flawless machine, albeit one that didn't feel too confident about their chances at victory, but a machine, nonetheless. 

She did not want to be the reason that the team failed. This wasn't some reality show with challenges that amounted to nothing or some meaningless. This was a game that cost the losers their life. 

In the midst of her thoughts, she nearly knocked Aphrodite over.