crystal.

[justashotaway]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Laura Kint
RECIPIENT: Everyone!
NOTES: tbd

[In her usual flat voice, a hint of Nevarran colouring the vowels as always--]

I require someone to fight.

Comments

[innerharbor]

For what?

[justashotaway]

A fight.

[ Maybe you didn't hear her. ]

[innerharbor]

I got that, kid.

Why d'you wanna fight?

[justashotaway]

I am not a kid.

[ More importantly: ]

I was away from the Gallows for some time. My skills must be sharpened again.

[innerharbor]

You sound like a kid.

So you wanna spar. Hey- shit. You the claws kid?

[ipseite]

A particular sort of fight?

[justashotaway]

Any kind.

[ipseite]

I feel certain that you don't mean a verbal disagreement, though you are of course—

( there is a joke in here, but people with more social skills than laura don't pick up on petra's idea of jokes all the time, )

—welcome to correct me.

[justashotaway]

[ Laura doesn't hear the humor in it. ]

Is it possible to practice those?

[ipseite]

( and, well: )

In fact, it is. A greater understanding of how one communicates, and communicates in and through conflict, is a rare skill for one to simply come to naturally without effort.

[okayimin]

[why.]

I trust this will not be the kind of fight with naked blades.

[justashotaway]

Why?

[okayimin]

Because stab wounds are dangerous and I'd prefer you lot avoid inflicting them on each other.

[justashotaway]

The fight would not be fair if they had no swords.

[okayimin]

You can use training swords.

[ Tho she has every confidence that someone would manage to hurt themselves on one of those. ]

[rowancrowned]

A spar, perhaps. Practice.

[justashotaway]

That is the purpose of my request.

[rowancrowned]

'A fight' implies a less casual air. The necessity of healers and so on.

[justashotaway]

Practice fights are still fights.

[sohighandwild]

[The replying accent is Antivan:]

I could use a spar, though depending on what you're looking for, I might not be enough of a challenge for you.

[justashotaway]

How do you fight?

[sohighandwild]

I'm best with a pair of knives, but I've had some rapier training. A bit of hand to hand, though it's not my first choice.

[In practice or, indeed, in life.]

[justashotaway]

...We can fight with swords if you prefer. Or you will fight with knives and I will not.

[raas]

Why?

[justashotaway]

Practice.