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[ripplingophelia]

Who: Ophelia (ripplingophelia) and Akito (fangedking)
What: A lesson in swordfighting.
When: Early evening of the 18th.
Where: Outside somewhere, away from the castle.
Rating: PG-13?

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[ripplingophelia]

In her released state it's easy for Ophelia to see his strike coming, and she barely has to think about how she will avoid it. It's almost reflex by now. Ophelia has fought Awakened Being after Awakened Being in her time as a Claymore, and they're much more difficult to dodge; they usually have claws, teeth, tentacles, extra arms, all kinds of weapons growing from their bodies. The leg of a human boy is nothing, it has no reach and no strength. Easy.

Ophelia jumps, and her enhanced strength means that she goes twice as high as Akito is tall. Landing neatly behind him, she grins and swings her sword again, aiming to wound rather than kill. The thought repeats in her mind: injure, don't kill, injure, don't kill, injure, don't kill, don't kill. She hates not feeling free to do what she wants, cut where she likes, but she has the discipline to do it. She does. She isn't weak-willed like so many others, she has self-control and she is determined to use it. Ophelia isn't worried about the monster taking over, because she knows that she is