Teaching

[greyerrant]

Who: The Silent wolf and you (open)
Where: Capricorn ward
Summary: Garviel teaches people how to fight with guns, blades, hand to hand, and everything but silly personas pretty much.
Warnings: Manliness, possible combat, a lot of talking.
[Loken waits, a few spare blades and a few longarms and pistols in a fairly careless-looking pile beside him, holding his chainsword two-handed, almost challenging anyone to approach him and learn. He is 8 feet tall, and an imposing figure at the edge of the plains, just before the forest.]

Comments

[demifemme]

"You're the kind of guy who teaches a man to swim by pushing him into the deep end of the pool, aren't you." Still, she lets him adjust her fingers without protesting, watching how he shifts her grip on the hilt to a much more secure and strong one. She has not expected this massive and gruff man to handle her hands so carefully, but she was glad for it.

"Thank you."

[greyerrant]

"Yes."

He steps away without acknowledging her thanks openly, just taking up a ready stance with his combat blade, and says.

"Now, try to run me through with that. Or slash me. I want to see how you think you do these two basic strikes."

[demifemme]

Shura nods and gets ready, moving her right foot back a bit. Then, she holds her sword higher before bringing it down diagonally to attempt to slash Garviel.

[greyerrant]

He parries the swing, and pauses again, drawing back. He will shift slightly, and say.

"You are off-balance. If you lean into it as you did, you will leave yourself open for a riposte."

[demifemme]

Hm. Clearly, she does not have the reach of a Dante to pull this one off like that. "Should I step forward when I attack, then?"

[greyerrant]

He nods, and waits for her to do it again.

[demifemme]

This time, when she slashes at him, she takes a step forward toward him at the same time. "Ha!"

[greyerrant]

He addresses the slash again, parrying it.

"Again."

[demifemme]

Shura returns to her previous stance, then strikes at Garviel again using the same technique of stepping forward as she swings.

[greyerrant]

"Again."

Same result, obviously trying to make her master the basics.

[demifemme]

Shura swings the sword as instructed, again and again, as many time as Garviel orders her to. As always, she's going to see even this mere exercise to the end.

[greyerrant]

"Enough." He growls, once she gets tired.

[demifemme]

Shura rests the tip of the sword against the ground as she took a pause. "Thanks." Well, now she'd know how to grab Dante's sword and whack his ass.

[greyerrant]

"We'll be working on that for a while. Thrusts will be next."