[It's a neat trick, and she's a little jealous that her own beloved blade doesn't come to her hand on command. Does he just think really hard about swords and it leaps to attention? Is there some kind of sciencey theorem involved? Almost, she asks him. But the possibility that there might be some long and very boring scientific explanation for it all ultimately stills her tongue.
For a moment, anyway. He's shifting position, moving with a fighter's easy grace into a ready stance, and there's the quickening spike of her heartbeat at that, an itch in her fingers like she wants to get her own sword in her hands. Wants to see what kind of moves he's got. Even if she already harbours the sneaking suspicion that he won't want to stage a duel in his kitchen.]
I like to think I'm pretty good at both, but I've seen faster.
[Naberius gave her a good run for her money the one and only time they fought, though she knows she would have smashed him and his stupid over-gelled bouffant if they hadn't been bound by ridiculous, genteel duelling rules.]
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[It's a neat trick, and she's a little jealous that her own beloved blade doesn't come to her hand on command. Does he just think really hard about swords and it leaps to attention? Is there some kind of sciencey theorem involved? Almost, she asks him. But the possibility that there might be some long and very boring scientific explanation for it all ultimately stills her tongue.
For a moment, anyway. He's shifting position, moving with a fighter's easy grace into a ready stance, and there's the quickening spike of her heartbeat at that, an itch in her fingers like she wants to get her own sword in her hands. Wants to see what kind of moves he's got. Even if she already harbours the sneaking suspicion that he won't want to stage a duel in his kitchen.]
I like to think I'm pretty good at both, but I've seen faster.
[Naberius gave her a good run for her money the one and only time they fought, though she knows she would have smashed him and his stupid over-gelled bouffant if they hadn't been bound by ridiculous, genteel duelling rules.]
Maybe you could give me a demonstration?
[She says it with just a touch of hopefulness.]