(100 words.)
An early lesson:
She stands still in front of him, feet apart, arms at her sides, and he runs rough fingers over her neck, down her wrists, lightly across the edges of her thighs, showing her all the places a man will bleed until he dies if she cuts just right.
Do you understand? he asks.
She swallows hard, throat bobbing under his touch, and nods.
Later he puts a blade in her shaking hand and stands her in front of a captured Overseer, cuts the rope around his wrists and tells her to show him what she has learned.