Jamie goes home

Jamie and Colin both went back to Jamie's house. It was obvious that Colin had a crush on her but Jamie wasn't into dudes. Still, it kept Knud off her back.

"How did the whipping go?" Jamie's mother asked.

"Oh yeah, I did really great" said Jamie, not wanting to admit she passed out after a mere seventeen whiplashes.

"Yeah, I only outlasted her by a few lashes" said Colin.

"Oh thanks a lot, Colin" said Jamie.

"It was Jamie had came up with the idea of cauterising the hydra's heads so they wouldn't grow back"

After Colin left, Jamie's mother took her to her room. Jamie took off her shirt, showing her whipped up back her mother. Her mother kissed it.

"I heard that you passed out before the boys" she said, "there's no shame in that. Its not easy but you gotta accept that as a woman, you are physically weaker"

"Fuck that, I'm stronger than I was as a boy"

The fact that as a boy, he was a skinny nerd and as a girl, she was a trained warrior, escaped Jamie.

"Jamie, this is biological reality, you need to accept if you're gonna survive" her mother said, "you can't just power through every enemy. You gotta be smarter than that. Take the hydra for example. It was stronger than any human. Had you not thought to cauterise its neck so its heads wouldn't grow back, it would have won"

After dinner, Jamie decided to sneak off to Revna's house.