Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
NABOO
Lake Country
Cardé Family Estate
Ashin and Spencer trained together in a huge field, far away from anything. Her birth mother had, of course, been aloof but circumspect, ignoring both of them.
As always.
"So you escaped Meric Nadun after fighting him as something like an equal. You've learned from Velok, Moridin, Sirella, Phylis, Kamon, and me. You've trained harder and acquired more knowledge than any Knight I've ever seen.
"You've seen the truth about your family and walked the future with me. You're functionally immune to pheromones and Sith Poison; you know the right countermoves to almost anything. You've become as powerful as some Masters.
"Well, honey, now it's time to grow a little more. Oh, we've done combat training before, but never like this. For the next month, it's going to be eight hours a day, pure physical combat. I've called in assorted combat trainers. We'll start and end with me.
"I've made sure you have the basics of Shii-Cho. You can defend yourself, to some extent. By the end of this month, you'll be something like a duellist. We both saw the same vision. We're running out of time.
"Drill with me."
Ashin moved through Shii-Cho velocities, preset series of memorized moves. Mastery of velocities allowed experimentation with timing, as with broken rhythm, and let the student begin to understand how momentum and kinetic energy travelled through the body. She had already taught Spencer the basic velocities of her preferred Form; now it was a matter of spending hours, and hours, honing it into perfection. They would do velocities together, in synchronicity.
"Who else," she said as she stepped and lunged and turned, "do you want to train you?"
Lake Country
Cardé Family Estate
Ashin and Spencer trained together in a huge field, far away from anything. Her birth mother had, of course, been aloof but circumspect, ignoring both of them.
As always.
"So you escaped Meric Nadun after fighting him as something like an equal. You've learned from Velok, Moridin, Sirella, Phylis, Kamon, and me. You've trained harder and acquired more knowledge than any Knight I've ever seen.
"You've seen the truth about your family and walked the future with me. You're functionally immune to pheromones and Sith Poison; you know the right countermoves to almost anything. You've become as powerful as some Masters.
"Well, honey, now it's time to grow a little more. Oh, we've done combat training before, but never like this. For the next month, it's going to be eight hours a day, pure physical combat. I've called in assorted combat trainers. We'll start and end with me.
"I've made sure you have the basics of Shii-Cho. You can defend yourself, to some extent. By the end of this month, you'll be something like a duellist. We both saw the same vision. We're running out of time.
"Drill with me."
Ashin moved through Shii-Cho velocities, preset series of memorized moves. Mastery of velocities allowed experimentation with timing, as with broken rhythm, and let the student begin to understand how momentum and kinetic energy travelled through the body. She had already taught Spencer the basic velocities of her preferred Form; now it was a matter of spending hours, and hours, honing it into perfection. They would do velocities together, in synchronicity.
"Who else," she said as she stepped and lunged and turned, "do you want to train you?"