Yu Lin Bloodhawk smiled. "You can have others teach you skills, tactics, and all that, and there are other ways to become strong in combat. But no one can help you with the things mentioned here.
"Even if your sisters or I used our connections to make you a Regiment Commander, most of your soldiers wouldn't respect you. Without their respect, you couldn't get them to follow your orders, and your unit would be nothing but a loose rabble. Is a unit full of rookies what you want?"
"I don't want a unit full of rookies! I want an elite unit!" Lirath Windrunner said. "An elite unit like my eldest and second sisters' bodyguards."
"Oh, you've got quite an appetite, little fellow!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said with a smile.
"Of course! I want a really powerful elite unit too!" Lirath Windrunner puffed out his chest.
"Talk alone won't get you anywhere!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said.
"Then take me to the Hinterlands now and let me join the Eaglewing Regiment!" Lirath Windrunner cried.
"No!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk shook his head. "Absolutely not! You can't join yet."
"Why not?" Lirath Windrunner was unhappy.
"Well, you won't do as you are now. Not only do you get into mischief every day, you've got a terrible spoiled-young-master attitude. I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to handle the hardship. If you want to join, you'll have to pass a three-month test first. Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll go in only to come running out in tears, and everyone will laugh at you for being a sissy. That would disgrace both me and your Windrunner family." Yu Lin Bloodhawk deliberately put on a stern expression.
"Three months, right?" Lirath Windrunner's eyes widened. "If I pass your three-month test, you'll let me join the Eaglewing Regiment?"
"Yes, that's