Encrypted Journal Entry – Acier Moonbound


Log Entry - Training Log #4
Location: Flickerfox

Been some time since the Death Star, been even longer since I've written in this thing.

But... it's been needed. I need to go back to the drawing board, back to the lab. So to speak.

I used to think that winning was about who hit harder. Who lasted longer. That's what Bonadan taught me: survive the first punch, and the rest will follow.

The Sith Lord taught me something differently.

He was unlike anything I ever fought. Like a surgeon carving out an infection. Every strike, every word... meant to pick me apart. He completely dismantled every flaw I didn't know I still had.

I came in hot, heavy, swinging like a hammer. He never met my strength head-on. Just… stepped aside. Let me waste myself. He moved like he was reading a script I didn't even know I was writing. Loud. Predictable. Like Aris always said.

When my emotions flared, he saw them before I did. Guilt. Anger. Fear. He used them like pressure points. I thought I could burn through it, raw drive carrying me like it always did. But it just blinded me. Every time I overcommitted, he redirected. Every time I pressed, he reset. He controlled the entire fight.

I keep thinking about that last exchange. I went for power. He went for placement.

One clean pivot. One disciplined step. And then my arm was gone.

But he was right about one thing. I am stubborn. I'll learn from this.

I've been looking more into Form V again. Both sides, Shien for redirection, Djem So for power. Make them complement each other. Shien's economy, strike where it matters, move where you need to. Djem So's presence, own the momentum, but don't drown in it.

I'm interested in Makashi too. Noticed the Sith using it against me in our duel. There's something in the way he moved... that calm, surgical precision. He flowed around the fight instead of through it. I used to think it looked weak. Now I know it's control disguised as grace. I could use that.

Eventually, I'll learn to move the way he did... but not to become him. To surpass him.​