Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-24849899-20151119014130/@comment-24487330-20151201012425

Even at five laps, the other trainees were struggling, and Holly could hear their complaints from the head of the group. She considered trying to encourage them, perhaps even provoking them with a little antagonizing, but Melina, the girl she'd met earlier, beat her to the punch. Seeing that she was doing her part, the dhampir chose to focus her own efforts on setting and maintaining the pace for the squad. The first five laps eventually gave way to another five...and, even as some of the squad members started to tire and grow sluggish, they managed to get through five more...before SSgt. McDowwel finally called them to stop and evaluated their performance.

As usual, Chris had a choice comment about Holly's mamono nature when he singled her out...but at least he seemed to be honest in praising her endurance as well. She would have rolled her eyes at the words if she thought there wouldn't be any consequences for it. As it stood, she remained stoic, listening but not speaking. Once he departed, the others fell at-ease and began conversing among themselves, and one of them, a fellow cadet named Dylan, introduced himself. "Holly Lureinn," she responded in kind. "Nice work back there. Can't imagine it was easy..." That was the hard part about her situation: the jabs about having a higher set of standards than the human recruits wasn't baseless at all. Her superiority was sure to set the bar even higher for the rest of Delta, and because it came so naturally to Holly, she might not even realize it...