I was sitting on the bed. On the old rickety bed, in the frowsy cabin of ship. My chemise denudes my right shoulder again and my hair lock falls onto my face. In the front of me was stood Victor with some kind of girl who was had augsburgine red hair.

"Ana, this is Everlaina" with strange accent said he. "She will teach you how to fight with a sword."

The girl sighed angrily and looked at me with hers azure blue eyes.

Everlaina.

That girl, who was sitting on the bed, seemed awful. Hers chemise was too big to her and bared hers puny shoulders, her chocolat brown hair curl was falling on hers green eyes. Here, between me and Victor she was looked like poor weak gently girl, but I was feel that somewhere deeply inside are good Devil sitting in her.

Victor just wished good luck, and left us alone. I was already gave a sword for that girl, and then door closed, I say for her to fight.

She just looked at me confused and tried to take a sword.

"Turn around."

"What?" rose hers eyebrows she.

"Turn around your sword, you are holding it incorrectly."

Girl turned around hers weapon and stood up. I wait a little and attacked her. Then I saw that hers reaction was good – she jumped in the other side, but fell on the bed. But she stood up at once and smiled.

"Why are you smiling?" ask I and attacked her again, but she jumped in the other side again. "You are happy that you successful avoiding me?" I laughed loudly and prepared to leave for this girl a little scar. I rotated a little and cut. I expect to hear a moan, but I hear clanging of metal.

I turned around surprised and saw crossed blades. Girl was smiling scornful.

"I'm not as bad as you think." she said.

"We'll see." Scowled I and attacked from another side. "Where you learn that?"

"From my father" answered she and attacked me too. "Sometimes we were fought. But I know just how to attack and defense, but just losers hits."

I standed that she was twitting of me. I sniffed and cut again. For my amazement, she avoided large consequences – just the tip of sword slipped of hers collarbone, and left about ten centimeters sore.

"Ah, sorry," said I sarcastically "I expect that you don't report for you father? Oh, yes… he didn't is here."

I laughed cold.

"Shove off" said she, dropped hers weapon on the bed and hide the sore under hers palm.

"Listen to me; in real fight you would be dead already." I said for her and took hers sword. When I turned around to went away, she whispered:

"How you see, I don't fight in there."

"Really?" ask I and laugh.

Ana.

Everlaina was unnerving me. Hardly.

Every morning she came to me to fight. Of course she wined all the time and then twitted. I don't say anything for Victor – I hate to be weak.

But everything went to the light when my sore started to fester. When Victor saw that he was shouting on the Eve and now he teaching me to fight himself.

How every morning, we were fighting.

"Didn't you tire?"

"No…" I shook my head and ready to defend. She looked at me intently and dropped his weapon on the floor.

"Everything? I said I'm not tired!" I surprise.

"So we are ending, until you not tired" he smiled and showed his teeth. "Listen, Ana…" said he questioning." You see, your father promised that he will pay for me, when I took you to safe place. I don't mean that you are load for me, that pay had to be symbolic… Yours father was promise that he will give me a little paper with one very important thing… And now I thought – perhaps he gave this paper for you?"

Of course, I had that little bloody paper in my pocket, but my intuition said loudly – don't trust him, don't give the paper for him.

"No, I don't know anything about that paper." I said.

"What can we do then, right?" said Victor and smiled again. "By the way, in the evening we moor in the shore. Prepare."

He went away.