Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (z-lib.org).mobi

“Surely the Sun Summoner doesn’t need my help,” Zoya said with a smug
smile.
I watched her warily. I wasn’t sure why this girl hated me so much, but I’d
had just about enough for one day.
We took our fighting stances, and Botkin gave the signal to start.
I actually managed to block Zoya’s first jab, but not the second. It caught me
hard on the jaw and my head snapped back. I tried to shake it off.
She danced forward and aimed a punch at my ribs. But some of Botkin’s
training must have sunk in over the last few weeks. I dodged right and the blow
glanced off me.
She flexed her shoulders and circled. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see
that the other Summoners had left off sparring and were watching us.
I shouldn’t have let myself get distracted. I took Zoya’s next punch hard to the
gut. As I gasped for breath, she followed with an elbow. I managed to avoid it
more by luck than skill.
She pressed her advantage and lunged forward. That was her mistake. I was
weak and I was slow, but Botkin had taught me to make use of my opponent’s
strength.
I stepped to the side, and as she came in close, I hooked my leg around her
ankle. Zoya went down hard.
The other Summoners broke into applause. But before I had a chance to even
register my victory, Zoya sat up, her expression furious, her arm slashing
through the air. I felt myself lifted off my feet as I flew backwards and slammed
into the training room’s wooden wall. I heard something crack, and all the breath
went out of my body as I slid to the ground.
“Zoya!” Botkin roared. “You do not use power. Not in these rooms. Never in
these rooms!”
Dimly, I was aware of the other Summoners gathering around, of Botkin
calling for a Healer.
“I’m fine,” I tried to say, but I couldn’t gather enough breath. I lay in the dirt,
panting shallowly. Every time I tried to breathe, pain tore through my left side.
A group of servants arrived, but when they lifted me onto the stretcher, I fainted.
Marie and Nadia told me the rest when they came to visit me in the infirmary.
A Healer had slowed my heart rate until I fell into a deep sleep, then mended my
broken rib and the bruises Zoya had left on me.
“Botkin was furious!” Marie exclaimed. “I’ve never seen him so angry. He
threw Zoya out of the training rooms. I thought he might hit her himself.”
“Ivo says he saw Ivan take her through the domed hall to the Darkling’s
council rooms, and when she came out, she was crying.”