Chapter 25: What you love might not want you

A whistle was blown to start the game.

I and Ustra sat on the carved cutout stones amidst the crowd on the left cubicle of about a hundred and more. 

Ustra had particularly done this because of me, i felt really discouraged immediately I saw the Princess and princes on seat just a tent before the Emperors'.

I wanted to avoid the enchanters and diviners at all cost, as grandpa had forewarned.

A small boy and his grandfather were sitting very close to me, 

Both breathless with the excitement of the event taking place only a few feet from behind the barricade.

"Look at them!" The old man exclaimed, "Magnificent!"

The little boy shuddered

"I'm afraid.".

The old man put his arm around him.

"It is frightening, but wonderful too. I once ran with the wild lions. There's nothing like it. 

You test yourself against death and it makes you feel like a man.".

I shook my head,