As the Stealth and Infiltration Training class session continued, the students pressed forward with varying degrees of success. Some managed to make small strides, and though their progress was incremental, progress in itself was still progress.
Others, however, failed to improve at all, their efforts producing nothing but repeated failure. But none of this seemed to trouble Instructor Hale in the slightest. He did not expect miracles, nor did he demand impossibilities.
He never once assumed that every student would suddenly master the delicate and demanding art of silent steps within the span of a mere four hours. To harbor such an expectation would have been nothing short of preposterous, an insult to the discipline itself and to the very nature of human growth.
