So next in the book Flare returns to the city of Telur after his months of training. The most important lesson he learned is that when you are fighting to the death fair gets you killed so fight dirty in order to live. Flare has one day to rest before the test to enter the gaurdians begins the test will last three days and it tests speed agility strength stamina and strategy. Flare passes the tests but then he has to get passed by a table of judges that will test his mental strength and see if he can think through the stress of being picked on and stuff. He passes this and is then put in a boot camp sorta thing and he is introduced to the other 13 members of his squad. only one is an elf the rest are all human and there are two mages in his group as well. they neer the end of boot camp and the officer training them has to pick a leader for the group the two people that he is considering are Flare and Philip who is a noble mans son. So since he cant decide he has then swordfight for leadership and flare wins. I was really happy when flare made it past the tests because that was sorta his dream and stuff . But because flare is elven royalty he isnt treated nicely at first and that makes me mad because once again he cant controll that and he should be judged by the way he behaves and not beause he is of a different race or because he has a title. I new that flare was going to win leadership of the group though it was just so expected. I also felt really sad for flare though because he accomplished all of this but he had no family to tell of his success that would really depress me.