[She comes to a stop all of a sudden, not because she's surprised, no-- she's faced such opponents before-- but to close her eyes and go statue still with blade held before her, to best feel the flow of the fight, to visualize how he'll act and where he'll next be. Her honed instinct will tell her when the moment is right, for her to step forward just more than a meter as he moves before her, bring her sword up the same instant in a diagonal slash, quick and clean. Difficult to be blocked, and more so to get out of if it is.
All it takes is an instant, to run through it and prepare, and then it is all happening, just as lightning fast. She moves forward, and swings--]