Behind the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

[puppy_fair]

There was a new person waiting with Zack and Kennedy today. Well, 'with' was too strong a word. She was in the shadow of the dorms, dare we say... lurking?

Like a lurker.

"Welcome to the Reserve," Maladicta said from her lurking limited position in the shadows. "Hopefully many of you are returning, but if this is your first time here, you are just as welcome."

( If expected to steal all the non-poisonous cookies and run before the insanity caught you. )

[You know the drill! Reserve meetings are open to all! Co-written with inneedofcoffee and brat_intraining]

2nd Floor Common Room, Tuesday Evening

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

Will had a stackful of books with him but they were, rather uncharacteristically, being ignored as he'd figured out how to turn on the television device. Rather by accident, as he'd done so by sitting on the small rectangular box with the push-buttons.

Tentative poking at the buttons had caused the picture to change rapidly, which was interesting and he did want to find out more about how it was possible to control a device remotely but the second he'd caught sight of a room full of machinery on the screen, he stopped pressing the buttons and settled in to watch a truly fascinating programme. As it turned out, this particular episode happened to be about 'carburetors', which were apparently a key component in the mechanised vehicles like the one he'd ridden to the school on.

Tuesday Afternoon

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

James thrust.

He pulled back, dancing on the balls of his feet, swinging the longsword hard around as he moved from a parry to a slicing blow, something he'd not attempt with his own.

Something in the Reserves earlier this afternoon touched a nerve with him, and the lad decided to work it out with steel.

He put both hands on the longsword grip as he moved through his workout, the sword heavier and longer than his usual rapier, muscles burning from moving around more weight than normal. Arutha said it was a trick his Swordmaster taught him, to build up strength and stamina so that when he switched to the rapier, he was quicker and faster. Having seen Arutha's prowess with the thin blade--the one James currently owned, even--he believed it.

The boy would even pass that tip along, should anyone visit for a spar or tips.

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