Santoro training 2

Several men and women, all of them equally sweaty and some of them badly bruised, were working through yet another set of demanding drills. Santoro was a brutal taskmaster. He set very high standards, exceeded those in demonstration, and then encouraged his students to aspire toward excelling him. None did, but many were getting close, which made him very happy.

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The fighters in the yard were setting up cork targets for knife drills. There were two dozen of them, men and women. All of them were former military and each had spent time working for private contractors in places where nobody really looked over their shoulders. They were dangerous as hell before Santoro recruited them, and they’d all come a long way since. No one trained people quite like the little Spaniard.

-Rage pg. 261-262, Kindle Edition.