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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 16, 2008 22:19:05 GMT -5
*Kade slowly looked up at Siohen, confused at what he was hearing. -Is she laughing? Why is she laughing???- he thought to himself. Dantin smiled slightly, unsure of what Siohen was laughing about but just happy that she was now laughing instead of crying. It seemed that it was fairly easy for her to fly from one emotional high to another. Minutes ago she'd been crying, now she was laughing. It was quite a different sight, to say the least.*
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 16, 2008 22:21:51 GMT -5
Siohen laughed openly now, not exactly sure what the source of amusement was in particular despite what had just happened, but glad to go with it. It was the first time in a long while that she'd had reason to openly laugh, especially since she'd had to feign muteness back in her home village. Looking at Kade curiously, she let her laughter subside, and then spoke. "What werhe you dhoing?" This shocked even her.
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 16, 2008 22:29:03 GMT -5
"I dunno," *Kade started,* "I gues I was just... wait, did you just talk without stuttering?" *Kade said, looking at her with a shocked expression. Dantin hadn't known her as long, nor had he heard her speak that much but he knew enough to know that she'd had a stutter for awhile now. He laughed quietly to himself before saying more to himself than any other beast.* "Well, I guess laughter does cure just about anything..."
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 16, 2008 22:34:03 GMT -5
"R-r-r-right," Siohen giggled. Her stutter had returned to a degree, but that was to be expected. After all, it wouldn't just vanish forever because she found something to be funny; the psychological inhibitions around it had to be lowered in the long term for that, and that'd take time. In the meantime, though, things could just be amusing. "Ap-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-parently nnnnnot, D-d-d-d-d-d-Dantin!"
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 16, 2008 22:43:02 GMT -5
*Dantin just shrugged, still smiling.* "Well, it'll get there, I'm sure. If anything, that means that you can talk just fine. You just gotta get there!" *He laughed a little bit and then turned to Kade.* "So, you gonna answer her question?" *He said with another laugh. Kade just kinda looked at Dantin and then at Siohen with a blank screen for a face.* "Well, uh... I really don't know." *He said with a shrugg, though this wasn't one of those embarressed shruggs, it was just kinda an 'Oh well' kinda shrugg.*
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 16, 2008 22:50:58 GMT -5
Siohen stood up and walked over to Dantin, grinning ear-to-ear. She turned to Kade and proceeded with a friendly, one-armed hug. It was the most she could do without making herself seem stupid, and without excluding Dantin. Besides, she was questioning the depth of their emotional bond to start, so it wasn't like she'd try and establish a romantic presence and then get kicked out. "W-w-w-we d-d-d-d-d-d-don't mmmmmmind," the young mouse chuckled.
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 16, 2008 23:10:19 GMT -5
*Kade returned the one armed hug with a friendly smile.* "Well, that's good!" *Siohen's assumption about Dantin and Kade were completely wrong. Completely to the utmost degree of completicity. They were very good friends but that's where it ended. There was nothing else between them besides friendship and a strong one at that. Dantin was standing there with his arms crossed, smiling and laughing slightly in a jovial manner.*
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 17, 2008 18:55:11 GMT -5
Nonetheless, Siohen's tentativeness and obvious hesitation remained. She moved back from Kade and glanced to Dantin to see what his reaction was. His arms were crossed, which gave the impression of mild disapproval, but he was smiling at the same time; confused by these mixed messages, she decided to just not push it. Stepping back towards the door, the mouse remained oriented towards the two others. "D-d-d-d-does that mmmmmean we c-c-c-c-c-can't sssssssssssspar?"
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 17, 2008 19:02:48 GMT -5
"If you really want to spar, then there's nothing stopping us. It's just that your not gonna have a problem laying me flat if you have any previous unarmed combat training." *Dantin said with another laugh.* "Yeah, and I'm worse than him and thats really saying something..." *Added Kade with a grin. Indeed, though they didn't know it, she could probably be their teacher in the ways of unarmed combat with how skilled she was at that certain fighting style.*
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 17, 2008 19:07:38 GMT -5
"D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-doesn't a-a-a-a-anyone around here p-p-p-practice unarmed c-c-c-c-combat?" Rather irked by the obvious lack of training in this department that Dantin and Kade had, Siohen sighed in disdain. A fortress as reputable as this would, in her mind, have more well-rounded combat training regimes. Maybe she could lobby for that if she stuck around long enough. Then again, she would just leave if someone from her village showed up.
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 17, 2008 19:21:01 GMT -5
*Dantin rubbed the back of his head in a sort of embarrased manner.* "Well, uh... not really. We used to have a beast that lived here that was an expert at it but he's gone off somewhere now. We really don't have anybeast to train other beasts in unarmed combat at the moment..." *Dantin offered an apologetic shrugg as Kade added.* "Yeah, we've mostly had to stick to swords and bows 'n' arrows and the such... it'd be nice to learn unarmed combat, though."
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 17, 2008 19:26:06 GMT -5
"Y-y-y-you g-g-g-g-g-g-guys must not fffffffahe well when you g-g-g-get zh-zhs-zh-shz-zisarmed, huh?" She probably wouldn't be able to do much teaching herself, what with her current speech impediments making communication as difficult as it was. Archery and swordsmanship was all fine and dandy, but this was a clear gap in their training that Siohen was shocked hadn't been filled yet. Not sure quite how to react to this, she wondered what could be done on a force-wide scale to remedy it and came up with nothing.
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 17, 2008 19:30:43 GMT -5
"Well," *Kade started,* "the good thing about it is that the vermin don't have hardly training in that area either or in any area period so we just kinda punch around and dodge untill we find either our weapon or another weapon to use. But we rarely lose are weapons regardless so we haven't gotten into too much trouble on that front." *Dantin just nodded in agreement, he didn't really have anything to add to that.*
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Post by Linx Exotic on Nov 17, 2008 19:36:07 GMT -5
"G-g-g-g-g-guess you zhs-zh-szh-zs-jz-zson't zsh-... Zh-zs-j-szho mmmmuch off the b-b-b-b-b-b-battlefield, then..." Unarmed combat was sometimes better in auxiliary roles. Siohen herself would be poorly suited to an all-out battle situation, having been trained for combat with much less armament involved and against much smaller groups of much more highly skilled individuals. Apparently, they never did anything like that. "I jd-zsh-sz-zhon't knnnnow what I'll b-b-b-b-b-be zd-shz-j-jsh-jz-jzhoing here if th-th-that's the c-c-c-c-c-c-case."
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Post by Dantin 'n' Kade on Nov 17, 2008 19:51:17 GMT -5
*Kade patted her on the shoulder.* "Don't worry, I'm sure that there'll be some raids and the such that you could participate in. Not all battles here are fought in the hundreds, or even the fifties. Sometimes it's even less than twenty. Just depends on the size of the band of vermin." *Nodding, Dantin added.* "And if you wanted to, you could always learn how to handle a blade. That could help matters a bit."
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