Automattic tumblr pocket casts theverge3/21/2023 ![]() ![]() And while she had never let said friend drift away completely, she wondered now as to what it might have been once upon a time. Of all that had been gained and lost in the time since those more simplistic days, in the origins of who she was now, that had been a hardship she’d carried hidden from sight. The dark-haired woman looked down at the note as memory tripped back so vividly that a tear slid down her cheek. His stance dropped some, knees a-bending while that stout frame turned to expose only one side, defensive – oh, how very unlike the lumbering was unexpected. “ I’m ready whenever you are…” was lastly uttered, those words drifting out into an ominous silence. Strides carried the pathstalker to room’s epicenter before a pivot had Raeleth primed to level a calculating stare upon his capable opponent. Opting to emulate his own weapon as much as possible, scar-battered digits reeled a sparring-sword–one without any sort of finger-guard–into a tight clutch. I’d like to change this.” Perhaps a glutton for punishment, he promptly followed Terenus to the room’s furthest corner, quick to heed the very first morsel of advice offered that day: grab a damn sword. I’ve seen the things that you can do, known you for years, and yet we’ve never scuffed it out. I like a real challenge,” the pathstalker stated flat-out, jeering away like the proud soldier he’d always been, “ and I understand full-well the challenge you pose. The pathstalker was a force to be reckoned with in ‘up-close and personal’ engagements, a battering-ram more apt to heave into enemy lines dervish-style than cling to unsuited shadows… but control, hinging to a clear mastery in sword-play? There was much to learn and this defining truth compelled him to visit an old comrade well-versed in such ‘fields’, to immerse deeper into renewed purpose and in the course, find himself back in Terenus’ dim-lit shop. For weeks Raeleth was subjected to exercises that weren’t always obvious in aim–one of which that had him climbing trees for feral cats–and yet he hadn’t withered, hell-bent in efforts given to achieve greater ‘form’. “Choose your blade, open mind, down-time, and irrefutable stubbornness formed the mind-set needed in approach of training at its most grueling measure. With a wry smile, he gestured towards the rack. ![]() Beneath the sheet was, indeed, a weapon rack, although the arms were rather unconventional. Gloved fingers closed around the sheet and tossed it aside, throwing a cloud of dust into the air at which the man scowled and coughed. “I doubt if I’ve used these since the time I actively took students…” Terenus mused, likely more to himself than to Raeleth. It seemed that whatever was beneath was seldom used. In the corner of his workshop stood what might have been a weapon rack, although it was covered with a dusty sheet. “You… Challenge me?” The rogue’s fave turned down in a thoughtful frown before turning his back on the man and walking away. ![]() Whatever project had held his attention until just then forgotten for the moment. Terenus’ head came up from his leather bench. ![]()
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