[Dry amusement warms the question, though he has to admit she has the degree of trained skill to back up the confidence. (Whether that skill has been sufficiently combat tested and forged is another question, and one he doesn't have enough information to determine with any real clarity.)
The ability to assess the level of strength shown thus far, his reach, and which blows she could take and which to block so quickly definitely indicates a keen mind and an armed proficiency that any evaluator should find acceptable.
Not that he's going to tell her that, just yet.
Instead, he raises to his feet, catches his center, and then leaps straight towards her without hesitation to deliver a near inhumanly quick flurry of jabs and thrusts. Because if she can read him while they're locked close, he's not going to give her the opportunity to put distance between them, develop a full strategy of attack.]
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[Dry amusement warms the question, though he has to admit she has the degree of trained skill to back up the confidence. (Whether that skill has been sufficiently combat tested and forged is another question, and one he doesn't have enough information to determine with any real clarity.)
The ability to assess the level of strength shown thus far, his reach, and which blows she could take and which to block so quickly definitely indicates a keen mind and an armed proficiency that any evaluator should find acceptable.
Not that he's going to tell her that, just yet.
Instead, he raises to his feet, catches his center, and then leaps straight towards her without hesitation to deliver a near inhumanly quick flurry of jabs and thrusts. Because if she can read him while they're locked close, he's not going to give her the opportunity to put distance between them, develop a full strategy of attack.]