icarus his fall and

Icarius was the one who was supposed to be with the dummy, supposed to be hacking away at cloth and fabric with calculated swings, not him.But maybe it was a mercy, that they’d decided to switch after three rounds of Icarus’s straight losses, Psyche too irritated at his low performance to protest the disregard Icarius has for his father’s rules.Icarus was granted a mercy that day. He knew that wooden swords couldn’t swing like that. Couldn’t cut through bodies that easily. But there was nothing he could have done, too far from them both to have prevented it, too far from the house to have shouted for help.Psyche’s suffering was over before it’d began.