"I did a lot of punching the ice for the spirits' tree, last month, between looking for Javert's lantern," Soldat admits. "It was nice having something to punch that was actually productive." Instead of just punching trees, which is their usual outlet for frustration.

As for the bag (which they can't use without shredding, sadly), they say, "It's at the armory now, where we'd moved the classes." Classes which... Soldat isn't really holding anymore, unless someone wants to just visit for practice one day. Without Javert, and with so few students left anyway, there hadn't seemed like much point.