A Run into the Backside[Rykanis][Flashback]

[Dallisetria]

"Eep!" she squealed, delighted. Even though he had pulled his hand back, he was going to teach her combat skills. Yay, yay, yay...! the thought repeated in her head. Sadly, she was so one-track minded when she is on her high's, that she didn't even think of anything else when she responded back to him, and so she had said, "Yay- that'd be great- yay!" when she realized what she'd said, she started to giggle, to where her stomach hurt and her eyes teared up. "Oh, I'm sorry. Just... just thinking-" she stopped herself.

"I feel like I know you really well, and yet, I don't know your name." she said blankly, her features suddenly in such an innocent way it was hard to believed that she really knew anything that wasn't pg-rated. "How rude of you," she joked. "Soo... what's your naaaame?" she said as she was looking at his face, not his eyes, and as she began to play with his cheeks.

(short post is short. lmao.)

[Rykanis Dakshata]

Rykanis was a bit surprised when she started excitedly exclaiming. He had only offered to take her for a spar, it was not that big of a deal... maybe she was just one of those people that got really excited at the idea of learning or training? Regardless, he simply smiled at her, and as she continued on apologizing for her outburst... He did wonder why she felt like she knew him really well, when they had only just met... He doubted there were to many people that really knew him, that had known him for a long time. Rykanis wondered for a bit, as she tried to play with his face, which was no easy task with his height along with her lack of it. She asked of his name, which of course seemed to be a common thing to do when first meeting. "Me? I am Rykanis... So what of it kitty, do you want to go learn to use pointy blades and stuff? I am sure I could teach you a thing or two..."

[Dallisetria]

She grinned, and nodded excitingly. She'd had to get on her tip-toes(and had to suck in her stomach) to reach his face, and when he'd spoken his name, she'd stopped- seemed to deflate, as it was, and she stood at her normal height. "Rykanis." she echoed. She started twirling in circles, and then she stopped after a minute, dizzy. She got into an awkward fighting stance, and then playfully punched the hair, as she had done Rykanis's stomach. Even though it had been playful, it still caused her to fall over in a weird way, landing badly.

She started hiccuping, And she unsteadily pulled herself up. She was still dizzy, but capable of moving. "Sorry," she paused, trying to regain balance. "Sorry about that. I get excited easily." she had to grab onto his forearm for support, and she hiccuped again. She started laughing, which didn't really help. "Eeeeeep," she giggled.

(omg. so. short.)

[Rykanis Dakshata]

Rykanis was getting a bit impatient. Sure his off side could wait for a block of marble to erode to dust, but him? He was a man of action, not one of waiting. So his choices really were rather limited. Either he could switch to his off side, and let him wait for him, or he could take action. As she twirled in circles, and nearly fell down from being dizzy, followed by attacking the air and falling down. She was a weird kitty... Or maybe just a normal one, and all were weird, he had seen some cats do odd things when playing... As she grabbed his arm, and he lifted her back to her feet, he finally decided on what to do, while she was still being rather goofy and unbalanced. He was a man of action after all. Rykanis leaned down, swept one arm behind her back, and attempted to lift her right off of her feet, and simply toss her over his shoulder like one might a sack of potatoes, her bottom half hanging over his front side, and her top half over his back, looking down. If this was successful he would simply begin to walk of and bring her to the Sasaran, as he had a feeling they would never get there if he let her continue on being all flighty. "Fine, if you wont walk, I will just take you. Just no clawing up my shirt." He said this last bit, smiling and a bit playfully, almost teasingly, as that was not normally a problem with people, but was one with a cats.

[Dallisetria]

She grabbed onto his shirt immediately, but as he said, she was careful not to ruin the fabric. "Okay.." she mumbled. She thought about it, why he'd picked her up... he didn't want to wait. And she was just playing like a little child. She just didn't know where it was that they were going, so she couldn't start walking there, if she was going to look stupid walking in the wrong direction. She started sniffling. "I'm sorry Rykanis. I'm so sooorrryyy." she pressed her face into his back, and her fists clenched, her hands becoming red, her knuckles white.

"It's nice how you can deal with my stupidity," she mumbled blankly. "I'm sorry for my behavior. Please forgive me." she was still hiccuping, which made her actions pretty pathetic. Since she found it might have been an awkward position for Rykanis, she pulled her hands back to where they rested on her shoulder, pushed up, and so it was easy for her to maneuver herself to where she was sitting on her shoulders. She didn't say anything, she didn't find it fit to, after pleading to him.

[Rykanis Dakshata]

Rykanis had not been sure if she would even let him pick him up, might freak out and start attacking and such... He probably would not have been surprised by any of that... He was however surprised by what she did do... She sort of got all disconsolate, sad, sort of like a child that had been shushed. Then she apologized. That was even odder. He was just feeling impatient, and decided to carry her there, was not expecting her to get all upset at herself. "Its alright, you don't have to get upset, I just thought this way would be faster. And you were a bit distracted..." "You weren't being stupid, you were just distracted... It happens to everyone at times, even me." He did his best to speak in a consoling voice. Usually the tone of ones voice was more important, when speaking to a animal, and so he tried to be nice and calming so she would calm down. After a bit, she got herself turned around, as was trying to sit on his shoulders. Though this was not as easy for him to do, to balance her, and actually made it harder for him to carry her. Once they got close to the weapon combat Sasarin, he set her down, letting her walk the rest of the way, but still pulling her along by her hand, took her inside, and brought her over to the wooden weapons rack. "Here, you can pick one of these. They have all sort of weapons, though you are probably better off with a dagger, or a shortsword or something." He himself picked a wooden lakan, which was his preferred weapon, and about the same length as a dagger, though curved.

[Dallisetria]

His voice had been very.. helpful? Comforting? More of the way he'd said it, really. And when he'd put her down when they were close, and guided her by hand, her grip was firm and tight, not gentle. When he led her to the wooden weapons, she took her time to look them over. Her first intention was to grab one of the weapons that was not recommended by Rykanis, but before she grabbed one, she stopped herself, and picked up a dagger.

"Thank you for earlier, Rykanis. I understand I don't need to get so upset at things like that." she played around with the wooden dagger, tossing it from hand to hand. She was about to toss it in the air, but it didn't seem like a good idea. Lately, it seemed like she was stopping herself from doing a lot of things.

She looked at the weapon Rykanis had picked up, and looked at it, observing it without touching. You don't, in fact, look with your hands. You look with your eyes... But she touched it anyway. She looked up at Rykanis. "What is this weapon called?" she asked quietly.

[Rykanis Dakshata]

Rykanis smiled, as it seemed his voice had managed to comfort the woman... Er beast... Er... kelvic? He was never really sure what to call them... And what was her name again? Dall? Eh, he would just call her Dall, or kitty. She was definitely a kitty, he did recall that. Rykanis watched as she looked over the weapons, going from one to the next... He almost laughed as she neared the big ones, but luckily she walked on past it, and settled on the dagger he had shown her. "Don't worry, I understand people getting upset. Emotions happen, it is only natural. Sometimes it just comes to the surface easier than other times..." She played around with the wooden practice dagger. All that he could think was that if it was real, she would likely have sliced a finger off, or stabbed herself. Good thing they started with the practice ones... Plus these were lighter... Then she wanted to know what the curved weapon Rykanis had picked was. He tossed the wooden lakan to his free hand, and used his main one to reach down and take his normal metal lakan from his belt sheath. "This? This little curved beauty? Well as you can see that is a practice version of my true lakan here. All true akalak wield one, it is a sign they passed their right of passage, and are a man. Only akalak use them, and they are a bit tricky. Kind of like the dagger you have there, but sort of curved, and with more sharp parts than just the blade." Rykanis put his metal lakan away, since they would not be fighting with it, and shifted his practice lakan back to his main hand. He then gestured with his free hand, for Dall to come at him. "Just attack, whenever you are ready, and I will do my best to defend." He doubted she could do to much, her first time with the weapon. He would be impressed if she kept from hurting herself.

[Dallisetria]

She held the wooden dagger firmly in her right hand, which felt much better and easier. Although she didn't know how she was supposed to... "come at him" as he'd said. She wasn't used to getting close to someone when in "combat" other than when she was in beast form. She sighed, and took a second to think about it. She looked at Rykanis again, and then had to hold back a laugh. He was so much bigger than she was, and she decided to aim for his stomach. She shrugged her shoulders, and then placed one foot in front of the other. How was she supposed to do this? It felt so unnatural to her.

She lunged forward, one foot in front of the other, the wooden weapon jerked forward. But right when she was about to hit him, she had a sudden fear she might hurt him, which made her stop short before hitting him. She pulled her arm back, and then laughed in her head. How was she going to hurt him with a wooden... dagger...? So without another word, not even one about the name of his weapon- about how interesting it was to her- she lunged forward again, this time aiming for Rykanis's chest.

[Rykanis Dakshata]

He watched her for a moment, as she sort of stood there puzzled. she obviously was not expecting to be told to attack so early, not when they had just begun. But it was a common learning style here, to learn by doing, with hands on experience. Bruises and blood, were often the sign of a lesson well learned, and he felt this was true. Not that he was going to really hurt her, no that would be rude to hurt a girl. But he could certainly teach her in a more physical fashion. She sort of clumsily came forward finally, not exactly sure of what to do. Then all at once she lunged at him, trying frantically to attack him and smash him in the chest with the wooden dagger. He of course had expected such a obvious movement, which was common to what someone would think was an idea, before actually fighting. But so often in real combat, those flashy fully committed moves... Got you killed, or disarmed, and left you wide open to counterattack... Now he himself had done the same thing many a time, and so it brought a smile to his face, as he reacted to this move that was so expected. He did a sort of combination movement, moving back and away diagonally from her, so as to get out of the range of the wild slash she had tried. Then while she had her arm fully extended, and fully committed, he would slash at her dagger with his lakan, attempting to knock it right out of her hand. If he was successful in disarming her, he would move in closer, putting the tip of the wooden lakan that would be sharp on a real lakan, to her throat, once more smiling at her. "Two things. One, try and keep a firmer grip on your weapon. Not to firm so as to make it harder to move it, but enough so you don't so easily lose it." "And two, only fully commit to a blow, if your opponent cannot defend, and it is a finishing blow. I am sure it looked cool, but it left you wide open. In a real fight, you could easily have just had your throat slit open, and a few cuts across you. Which would not be so good." "Don't forget about defense, in your excitement for offense. Though in all honesty, it seems like it was not so long ago, when I did the same thing... And when I did it, my teacher nearly let me crack my skull open to make sure I would recall it."