These past few days I've been heading to the sand yard before sunrise. There's a cheap one who learned the footwork wrong, and I've watched kids who learned it that way die twice before their price ever rose.

• NikaI'm not dead yet. And I only fell twice today.
  MaximoSo come out again tomorrow. I'll let you fall up to three times.
• ServiliaWhen a trainee's price rises, she sells for the higher price. You're the one raising her to be sold.
  MaximoSelling's your job. Footwork's mine.