Training Montage?
May. 3rd, 2006 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twiststhebladeOutside by the lake, barefoot, gritty soil between her toes. She barely notices, except in a vague way, noting that the traction is good. Eyes closed. Each movement gradual, controlled. Graceful, almost balletic. The total muscle control moving so slowly and yet precisely requires would only be appreciated by a few.
With each iteration she speeds up. Faster and faster each time, until her form is blurred.
There is only one set of footprints.
With each iteration she speeds up. Faster and faster each time, until her form is blurred.
There is only one set of footprints.
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Date: 2006-05-04 12:00 pm (UTC)Oh, yes. Miho is being terribly restrained. Or, possibly, not.
"I don't know," with an impish grin. "She's pretty lethal already."
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:26 pm (UTC)Smirk, smirk, smirk.
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:32 pm (UTC)"You could say that."
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Date: 2006-05-04 07:08 pm (UTC)Still smiling, Alanna shifts her gaze towards the lake. Her eyes drift shut for a moment.
"Is it springtime where you are from, Miho?"
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Date: 2006-05-04 07:53 pm (UTC)"But it's nothing like this. The city is dark and grey and eternally wet."
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:07 pm (UTC)Homesick as she is, dark, gray and eternally wet is the last way she would describe Corus.
Even in February.
"It's springtime in Corus, and I'm missing it. The king has ordered me to stay here for the foreseeable future."
At least until she can finish a fight without wheezing.
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:08 pm (UTC)This seems sensible to Miho.
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:15 pm (UTC)"I suppose you're right," she mumbles. "It's just that I could be perfectly happy here so long as I knew I could leave."
Restless, Alanna looks a bit trapped. She tightens her grip on the sword and finishes the drill she had started earlier.
"Do you train out here often?"
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:17 pm (UTC)"Most days."
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:30 pm (UTC)She grins, holding the last position.
"Certainly not a fighter attempting to retrain her muscles. Mind if I watch once or twice?"
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:32 pm (UTC)"We can spar some, if you like. Not full strength, if you don't think you're up to it. There's a lot to be learnt from half-speed combat though."
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:44 pm (UTC)"Aye, I'd like that. It's been far too long since I heard the clang of steel on steel, even at half speed."
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 08:59 pm (UTC)"As it so happens, I do."
Looking around, she jogs to a tree a short distance away and grabs onto a low hanging branch. She swings herself up, slowly and carefully, and pulls something from a shadowed spot where two branches form a 'v.' On her way back, she pulls a sword from a simple black sheath and offers it to Miho.
"I have been a little on edge lately."
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Date: 2006-05-04 10:00 pm (UTC)"Thank you." Then she hefts it, trying it's weight and balance.
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Date: 2006-05-04 10:23 pm (UTC)Assuming the guard stance, "shall we?"
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Date: 2006-05-04 10:26 pm (UTC)Miho bows once more, deeper this time, and takes up her own stance. Loose, relaxed, perfectly poised.
And proceeds to try Alanna's skill and, the balance of the sword.
She finds herself greatly enamoured of both.
(OOC: and wrap?)