Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27550231-20160726000337/@comment-28358106-20160923183431

"I would've lost count too, lording, if I were as old as you."

She grins again whips out her waster. She drops down into a tail stance, her wings high, and begins to circle. Her foot placement is vastly improved, and he immediately sees what she's doing: she's using her wings as a counterbalance, keeping them open so that she doesn't give away her intention by holding them tight.

She closes fast. She opens with a shield feint, but pulls back before he can catch her with his forward foot. She blocks as he swings up, keeping his foot firm, but she does something unexpected---she thrusts forward with her wings, immediately countering. He dodges, but almost not quickly enough; by the time he recovers, she's already ducked and closed in again, this time on his blind side.

He side parries, but she has already moved again---she is using her wings in an incredible display of speed, ducking just out of reach, probing for weaknesses. She is using her advantages as a Golem; she is faster than any Demon he's fought, and if it weren't for her inexperience, she would have taken advantage of the openings she hasn't seen.

By the time she pulls back, she has attacked seven times, parried each time, but relentless in her attack. Imperfect and unpolished, aggressive but cautious, and wholly advantaged over the average swordsman. Not like the Aurum he knew.

She gives no indication of being tired. Instead, she is smiling, as if it were a game. "I don't consider them tricks, lording, just innate advantages. Would you like me to slow down?"

"Hahahaha! YEEEAAAHHH!  Oh, shit." Both of them look up to see Aegis shrink back sheepishly into the foliage high above.

Aurum sighs. "Good grief, Aegis...ah well, no matter. She may be the better fighter, but that doesn't mean I won't show her a thing or two by watching." She crouches, catlike, coiled. She waits for his attack.