[ for someone with seemingly no muscle memory of fighting, he does it well enough. muscle memory only comes with practice and repetition and she understands that he has neither.
she evades the first punch, blocks the second — and the third is faster, harder. she twists, neither blocking nor evading entirely, his elbow catching her side but with less force than if she had remained still. it might leave a bruise, but she is used to those. ]
Good.
[ there was someone or something else in his mind. she's curious, but not enough so to ask just yet. ]
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she evades the first punch, blocks the second — and the third is faster, harder. she twists, neither blocking nor evading entirely, his elbow catching her side but with less force than if she had remained still. it might leave a bruise, but she is used to those. ]
Good.
[ there was someone or something else in his mind. she's curious, but not enough so to ask just yet. ]