#fenixtj

Parrying as if her life depended on it, Jessica catches the blade smoothly!

She pushes it aside and reposte!

Mitra nods "You're remembering your lessons. GOOD." And another flurry

Another parrying flurry in response.

"Excellent, remember your footing"

She misses the simiplicity of her maul but having only one weapon isn't smart. Swords it is.

Ellie watches with interest!

Mitra maybe the best warrior Eiluned Ellie has ever seen, and she's known some Eiluned.

Well, second best. There was a guest

"You have reach, so any smart oe will try to.." And a whack, "To get you to over extend" the sting on underside of Jessica's arm is smarting

"Pronation Tierce!" Ellie calls out - helping!

Mitra smiles at that "Excellent"

Sayda, the clurichaun Heir to the pit, watches "Yes, Pronation ..what she said"

"That's third... like.." She shows Sayda the wrist position, parrying an invisible blade.

"Oh!" She mimes the motion

Ariel comes up with the popcorn "Did I miss anything?"

"Sparring. Dame Mitra is excellent."

"Cool. She better not really hurt Chief Jessica though" A scowl and she hands over the popcorn to the others to share

'Oh she won't, they know what they're doing" Sayda says

And so it seems. The blows are not to kill after all. Ellie finds herself relied on to give the proper terms

Ellie knows all the terms, mostly in french.

The girls seem to think that just adds to the cool factor.

And Jessica gets a good hit on Mitra's thigh

Sayda says "Nice" She seems used toviolence

"Si, but... look, that opened up her left..." Indeed, Mitra gets a poke in!

"Yup. But trolls are meaty, they can win in the trading blows fight" Sayda says "Shard sometimes does that"

"Oh yes, against a larger foe, you must avoid being hit.."

"Best to stay back and wear them out."

Salma looks up over her book. "Don't get into a fight and you avoid getting hit best of all."

Ariel says "Well, yes if you want to be smart about it" A smirk then a blink "How many new books did you get on that tour? I don't recognize that one"

"This one is by a lady, Miss Julie Verne." Showing off the cover with a hot air balloon on it. "If we went on tour in a hot air balloon, no one could attack and we can just wave down at the people..."

"ooo, that could be fun!"

"And see, if anyone looks troublesome, you drop a sandbag on their cabeza, and they go down, and the balloon goes UP!"

"But not TOO high."

"What if you get blown away to Oz?"

A grin. "What IF?"

Ariel grins "Oz could be fun. We'll need water in a bucket to be safe"

"Well, there are good witches. Like Lady Mitra."

"I would like to meet a Lion, but only if he is nice, or perhaps Cowardly. Not if he was the hungry sort."

"a HUNGRY lion could mistake a burra for a burrito!"

Sayda says "If it was Hungry, we would stuff it with real burritos and save you. It would get very tired after the meal, and we would slip away"

She blinks at Sayda, and smiles. "Where are the burritos, just in case I need to know?"

"Oh.. right." Sayda says "We'd need to bring burritos"

"Popcorn?" Ariel offers Salma

"He better not mistake Donquito for a Burrito..."

"Popcorn!" She dutifully offered a piece to the kitten on her lap. Do kittens eat popcorn?

Apparenlty this kitten nibbles at least

Indeed, the kittens are quite happy to get to cliam the girls since they were gone FOREVER

And finally, Mitra manages to disarm JESSICA

"We'll make a swordswoman of you yet" Mitra says