The Never

Earlier, Miro was in her last class of the day before break, combat.

She was very, very bored.

After the first ten minutes of the teacher explaining basic battle strategies and Miro loudly correcting him from the back of the class, she had been sent outside. When she came back to the students dueling each other in basic fencing-style swordplay, Miro took on each of the other kids one by one until the whole class had lost to her. When the teacher accused her of cheating, Miro had challenged him to a duel to defend her own honor. After beating the fighting instructor in a one-sided thirty-second fight, Miro had made him leave the classroom in anger. And now she was the fighting instructor.

She sat at the teacher’s desk with her legs crossed and propped up on the tabletop. In front of her, in organized lines, the other students practiced sword positions on each other as Miro called them out. Once she thought they had learned the basics, she let them just do whatever they wanted until the class ended. Having the children of supervillains do whatever they want in a room filled with swords turned out to be very entertaining.