Juliette Coulombe (clearyourmind) wrote in emillion, @ 2013-09-19 13:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, !thread, juliette coulombe, theodore finch |
Who: Juliette & Theo
What: Training fail (also known as disappointing one's mentor)
Where: Ashwyrm Hall training grounds
When: This afternoon
Rating: PG-13 (language! violence!)
Status: Complete~!
The day prior had been meant to give her the space necessary to think through her problems. Sadly, it had left her feeling all the more aimless and confused – and, she thought, as she barely blocked a strike, her wrist at a really poor angle, utterly distracted. She hadn’t been able to think of any good reason why she shouldn’t train, and even Kiernan had told her that everyone got one. Not two, not a week but one. So here she was, and this day was by all measures an utter disaster. She had tripped and fallen in the middle of a simple kata this morning, not to mention lost a spar embarrassingly to a squire six months her junior. And now – she couldn’t help a grunt as a strike of her mentor’s practice short sword connected with her shoulder, for her own weapon was nowhere near close enough to block it – she was losing spectacularly again. Not that she was ever expected to win against Lord Finch, but she was at least expected to remember a basic block she had been taught over two years ago. She gritted her teeth and attempted to concentrate. Until he called a stop, she just had to stay on her feet, even if she took a beating in the process. She could at least do that much, surely. |