An Even Break 1.5: Violent Interlude

There wasn't supposed to be anything but training and learning here. One fight was finished, another, bigger one was coming. He was preparing for war while he had time. But he still had enemies, enemies who had no qualms about striking from the shadows against the innocent if that's what it took to get to him. So it was that the time of learning was, against his will, turned into a time of teaching. He was a trainee, he was a student, and he was a target. He accepted that. Now others suffered pain and loss because of him. He would NOT accept that. So it was that he turned to another role, that of teacher. Because his enemies had to learn something important:

Don't make William Sparrow angry.

And he was going to make it a very hard lesson indeed.