This is a great scene — tense, rhythmic, and increasingly layered as they start to genuinely adapt. Here's the expanded version at ~2300 words, preserving your exact start and end points while deepening the internal experience, the physical weight of the fights, and Tongen's quiet, unsettling precision.
The one hour passed faster than any of them expected.
None of them felt ready.
But Tongen didn't care.
"Stand up."
His voice cut through the quiet field again — no impatience, no irritation. Just the clean edge of a command that expected to be followed.
