Private The strength of our Bond

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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"Alright, let's get this started."​

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Valery flashed Kahlil a smirk as the hilt of her lightsaber was drawn into her hand. Ever since they found each other again on New Cov, the two had thought about ways to revive his sensitivity to the Force. He had used it there when he drew on the bond between them to handle the soldiers trying to kill her, so there had to be a way for him to feel it again like he once did. Without relying on her proximity to him. ​

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This is why they stood together in the training ring, Valery dressed in training shorts, a form-fitting shirt, and some training shoes. It had taken her some time to get back in shape due to the pregnancy, but she had always been a highly motivated woman. So now she stood ready to help guide him, her skills not nearly as rusty anymore, and her desire to help him as great as always.​

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"I'm going to try to push you gradually. Let's see what this bond can do, hm?" She asked her question with a smile, but her expression very quickly turned serious again. her eyes narrowed and with great speed, she began to move towards him. For this attempt at helping him, she was purposely augmenting herself just a bit so she could push him more and more.​

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Fighting within his comfort zone was not an option.​

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So as Valery got close enough, she opened with a quick lunge towards him, the blade thrust towards his stomach.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Kahlil stretched. It'd been a while since he last held a lightsaber in his hand. Even now, the training saber he had felt.. Heavy. Wrong. It wasn't his Solari crystal. His lips thinned to a frown as he ignited the greenish blade. That was something he'd have to handle, at some point. Fixing what was broken. For now? He spun the blade with a turn of his wrist before turning his gaze towards Valery Noble . He cracked a grin, nodding.

"C'mon now. I can't let lil' Vera down now, can I?" He turned more, lifting his blade, relaxing into the opening stance of Soresu. Without the Force, he hadn't bothered trying to use the stance. The core of it was trusting the Force, feeling it and letting it guide him through combat. What better way to test their bond and the echo it gave him? It was harder to hear, but he still could. As she lunged forward, he turned, letting his blade more subtly knock her thrust off course. Small movements, minimal effort.

Become the eye. The lessons replayed in his head as he took a step back from her, blade lifted high again as he grinned. "Don't hold back. We both need the training, right?"

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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Valery began the spar with a quick lunge and watched as Kahlil fell into the familiar Soresu opening stance. Right as she reached him, the Force echoed between them and he very efficiently parried away her strike, causing a slight but noticeable smirk to form on the woman's face.​

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"Don't hold back. We both need the training, right?"​

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"Oh, I wasn't planning on holding..back!"​

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As his blade moved back up to the recognizable guard, Valery was already moving again with just a tad bit more speed than before. Her body twisted and turned, and her blade came around to attempt a more precise grazing strike, aimed at his left hip. But this time, she followed up quickly by rotating her wrist, allowing her to bring the blade around and sweep diagonally down towards his leading leg.​

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Each attack was precise, quick, and light — all to test him more and more.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Feints, thrusts, parries, dodges. It was readily apparent just how ingrained lightsaber combat was to the larger man as he swept his blade across to stop Valery Noble 's own. The flick of his own wrist let him turn her feint away from his leg and towards the ground. He didn't let it linger, though. In that same motion his hand came around, intent on pushing the woman back with a simple nudge of the Force.

Which didn't happen. His hand, open palmed, just stayed between them for a moment. Then he cleared his throat. "Ah. Baby steps then."

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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He was keeping up.​

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With a smirk, Valery continued to increase the pace and it seemed he was able to follow along really well — his skills had not deteriorated, and drawing on the Bond between them was going smoothly. Must be a good sign. She hoped they were getting closer to restoring his sensitivity with this.​

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But after another set of precise strikes were deflected, his hand came up in what could only be a telekinetic strike. She readied herself but nothing happened, and she'd hear him clear his throat.​

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"Small steps."​

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Valery then changed her style rather abruptly and launched herself towards him to get closer, rather than fight at more of a distance. She locked eyes and began to aim faster and more powerful strikes towards his body from multiple angles. Kahlil would likely recognize it easily — the more physical forms were always her preferred ones.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Physical he could do. The echo still guided him, let him react before he needed to to better angle Valery Noble 's blade away from him. Even if he couldn't use the Force like he had when the two first met back up, this was still a step forward. Their blades danced, her aggressive action met by his own passive reaction. The immovable force against an unstoppable assault. The Shield and the Sword.

He was all smiles. His eyes never left hers, focused intently on keeping that locked gaze. There was no reason for him to look at anything else, not if he wanted to get used to this echo.

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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The Sword and the shield.​

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Two sides of the same coin now found themselves clashing against each other, not in aggressive conflict but a dance where the Force freely flowed between them. He could read and understand each move she made, and all her deepest intentions, but she understood him as well. In this dance, it was almost as if he had never been cut from the Force.​

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With a smirk on her face, Valery maintained eye contact with him as well, noticing his smile. She knew he enjoyed this as much as she did, and that he was more than ready to defend himself against her.​

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But she enjoyed being a little competitive with him too, so she decided to test him even further. To defend against what she was planning next would require one to be properly in tune with the Force, so this was going to be interesting.​

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The attack began like many before, with Valery jumping rapidly through the air and coming down to aim a strike against her partner. But this time, she waited until she drew out his defensive guard, and attempted to flash past his guard using Trakata — a move one could read through with the Force, but was hard to counter without.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

He felt the trick before he saw it. Danger, underhanded danger at that. He raised a brow, but there was no time to think. No time to second guess. As his blade met nothing and hers slipped by, he reached down with his free hand. Instinct alone had him catch the saber. Not with his bare hand, but a grip of the Force. The echo had grown stronger throughout their spar, enough that he could use this much.

And with her blade in hand his own swung up for Valery Noble 's neck to pause just shy.

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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A grin formed as time began to flow slower to her, and she watched her blade pass his guard. She got him.... or so she thought.​

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As her blade ignited again and was about to land a strike, she suddenly felt the Force pulse through her partner. Using his free hand, his grip was extended through the Force to catch her blade, and instantly, she knew it was over. Her plan had worked.​

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She arched her head back a little as the plasma of his lightsaber hovered just underneath her chin, and looked up into his eyes with a warm smile. Valery then disengaged her lightsaber again and stood up straight before she pulled him into a brief hug.​

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"We're getting there," she said, eyes still locked.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

"Slowly but surely." He let out a sigh of relief, returning the hug Valery Noble gave for a brief moment. Then he was grinning again. He stepped back, his green blade reigniting in his grip as he watched her. "Again?"

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

Valery: Appearance​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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Stepping back from their brief embrace, Valery smirked and tapped the ignition switch to activate her lightsaber again. She looked him in the eyes and offered a single wink.​

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"Again."​

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This time, she decided to change her tactics again, choosing a posture that was more relaxed and a style that was far more balanced. With her left hand, she made a sudden wrapping motion, attempting to draw him closer with the Force, before aiming a sweeping strike towards his body. ​

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He had used the Force to defend, now she wanted to see how he'd respond to the Force being used against him.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Kahlil brought up his blade in the same stance he had before, preparing himself for Valery Noble 's coming assault. She always favored offense, so why not be ready to defend? The thought was still in his mind as he left the ground. Surprise took over, then instinct. A pulling slash had him soaring through the air towards her blade. Rather than try to fight it, he went with it. Catching himself at the last moment to dive under her sweep before spinning up with his own blade in a counter attack.

If she wanted to mix things up, he would too. He held nothing back, his raw strength empowered by the Force as his green blade swung for her back. The grin ever present on his features.

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

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Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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Watching him adjust and duck underneath her blade made the spar even more thrilling than it already was. He easily adapted and was so in tune with her that they could likely keep going forever if it wasn't for riskier tactics and tricks. She then felt his intentions as he spun to counter-attack, and began to grin herself.​

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He was switching things up as well.​

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Empowering herself with the Force, she switched to a two-handed grip and allowed her violet blade to clash against the plasma of his lightsaber. She let them hiss at each other for a moment before she abruptly pulled away and twisted her body. Her right foot rapidly came off the ground and using her flexibility and strength, she spun her body into a high-kick aimed for his left side.​

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Again, she was throwing variety at him to test him, but also to amp up the intensity of their little dance.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Normally he'd just tank the kick to his side. That was the advantage of his physique. For most people, he was built almost like a tank. Valery Noble wasn't most people. Trying to take her strike would surely result in some bruised ribs. So he tucked in, shifting his grip on his saber so he could catch her kick on his forearm. Better than then his ribcage for sure. He flinched somewhat on the impact, but his grin remained.

Then brought his blade around. His hand turned, moving to take hold of her ankle as he swiped the low intensity blade for her extending leg. All to force her to block so he could better plant his feet, twist.

Then throw the woman by that grip on her ankle.

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

Valery: Appearance​

Lightsabers: Link!​

Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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In normal spars, Valery was always careful with physical strikes or powerful attacks with the lightsaber — harming a sparring partner was simply bad training etiquette. But she knew Kahlil could handle it, and she wasn't going to go easy on him just because she loved him. It had to be intense and feel more real between them.​

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As the kick lander, she'd met his grin with one of her own but before she could pull back, she felt his tight grip around her ankle and blinked. Part of her wanted to try some trickery to escape but she decided against it this time and quickly moved her blade into a block... only to be thrown away after.​

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She initially hit the ground rather awkwardly but as he'd likely expect, she rolled back up to her feet with speed and elegance, her orange gaze turning back to him with an intense grin.​

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"Good."​

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Then with explosive speed, she launched herself back up into the air and towards him, blade drawn and with a look that made it clear she was not holding back. So when she finally came within striking range, the woman unleashed a Saber Swarm of quick attacks towards him, aimed at torso and limbs.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Kahlil didn't stay still as Valery Noble was thrown away. As the woman rolled to her feet she'd find the giant above her, already swinging the green blade down in both hands. The Epicanthix wasn't holding back either, showing off that just because he always opted for defense he could very well launch his own offensive.

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

Valery: Appearance​

Lightsabers: Link!​

Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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Coming out of her roll, Valery had planned to take the offensive again but instead found herself within the shadow of the much bigger figure. She blinked and as his grip tightened to strike down towards her, she felt it echoing through the Force. Now it was time for her little bit of trickery.​

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Rather than defending or trying to evade, the woman still launched herself up towards him in what would normally be a certain hit taken on her behalf. If he were to make his attack, he'd feel his blade slicing through the air, met with no resistance from her. Valery had phased herself through weapon and partner, coming out behind him and in the air.​

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There, she spun around and used that rotational momentum to try and deliver a surprise attack.​

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[Kahlil Noble]

For a moment he was worried. Valery Noble launched towards him, but there was no simply stopping his strike. The most he could do was thumb off the ignition of his blade. As non lethal of a setting as it was, the force behind a Falling Avalanche from a man his size wasn't something he wanted to hit his fiance with. Grant it, his worry turned out to be for naught. Not only did she dive right into his guard as his arms lowered, but she phased through him.

He just blinked. The Force could do that?

The surprise attack connected with his back. He stayed standing where he was before turning his gaze back towards Valery, the grin ever present on his features. "One one."

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Ossus​

Valery: Appearance​

Lightsabers: Link!​

Tag: Kahlil Noble ​

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After she felt her blade connecting with his back, Valery made her landing and disengaged her lightsaber. She turned around and smirked as he called out the score but she seemed a bit more tired already. It was unusual for her to be this exhausted after only a few quick rounds, but it also hadn't been that long since she got back in shape.​

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Valery then raised a hand up through her hair and closed her eyes as she took in a deep breath.​

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"You want another go to settle the final score?"​

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[Kahlil Noble]

Kahlil watched her for a moment, turning to better face the other Jedi. His arms crossed over his chest as he pondered her question. It was obvious Valery Noble was already tired. Was he pushing her too much? Maybe. But she was ready for more, and who was he to tell the Jedi Master that she should take a break? He lifted his blade, once more letting the green energy spring to life.

And didn't move. Instead, he closed his eyes. Pulled on that echo between him and Valery before reaching out. Weight. Small at first, but rapidly increasing around the Master's form. Not just weight, gravity. More and more until she either stopped him or reached a point she could no longer stand.