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Self-Defense - Wednesday evening, Gym

The mats have been laid out, food is on a nearby table, and Alanna is bouncing in the middle of the room. The only new addition is a small black cat napping underneath the table.

"Okay guys, same drill as last week. Sign up, I pair you up and then I'll walk around and bug you about what you're doing wrong. Also, I don't want a repeat of last week. I don't care how minorly you are hurt, stop and talk to me. I don't want people walking around with bruises and scrapes. Don't make me break you up physically. Okay, gang, pair up."

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Nadia barely even moved. She sort of folded slightly as Pippi crashed down on her, then flopped back to the floor. She blinked a lot.

Her five-star-frog-splash tribute to Eddie Guerrero completed, Pippi didn't get up, but looked over her shoulder at her friend.

"Nadia? You okay?" she asked grinning like an idiot.

Nadia blinked a few more times. "...il passeggero e quello scelto...." she muttered. Then she shook her head slightly. "¿Qué?" She glanced at Pippi. "Sorry," she grimaced. "What was that?"

"I saw it on TV!" said Pippi, obviously excited. She planted her hands on the floor and pushed off with her feet, somersaulting forward and off of Nadia. When she had righted herself she turned around and sat Indian Style next to her, holding her hand out to help her friend up.

"What do you want to do now?"

"Hey, you three, everything okay?" Alanna walked over to where they were.

Nadia took Pippi's offered hand and sat up. She felt fine, now, but had been really dizzy after Victor's throw. "I think so." She shook her head. "I guess getting thrown twice in a matter of five minutes probably isn't good for your equilibrium."

Pippi held onto Nadia's arm until she was sure that her friend had her balance back.

"We're all good I think. I haven't been in a good tussle for a while. I'm sorry if I got a little rambunctious."

Alanna frowned and crouched by Nadia. "Okay, I'm going to take a wild guess and say you have a knack for getting into trouble and you hate it when other people try to help you. Trust me, I'm exactly like you, which is why you are going to sit still and let me heal."

Nadia rolled her eyes, but decided against objecting. If Alanna was running the self-defence meetings, odds were pretty good she could take Nadia in a fight, probably in, oh, half a second. "I don't hate it. I'm just not used to it."

Alanna nodded. "Understanding and ... overrulling." She placed her hand gently on Nadia's forehead and concentrated on channeling her Gift.

((Nadia would feel better and the bruises/scratches would be a few weeks old rather than pretty new.))

Pippi watched with interest. She'd heard about Alanna's ability to hear and she wanted to see what it was like.

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Nadia felt ridiculous sitting on the floor with Alanna's hand on her forehead, but she couldn't deny that whatever the other girl was doing was helping. The stiffness and achiness she'd felt for the last two days since the great superball battle on the stairs was pretty much completely gone, and even the slight, dull ache that remained in her ankle from last week disappeared. She blinked slightly as Alanna finished.

"Okay, that's a useful skill to have,"

Alanna rocked back on her heels, carefully hiding the trembling in her hands. "Y-yeah, can't deny that. And to answer the most common question I get, yes, I was born with it. I'm Gifted and I'm especially talented in healing apparently." She stood up and offered Nadia a hand.

Nadia noted the slight stammer in Alanna's voice and wondered if it had to do with being embarrassed, which she doubted, considering Alanna's somewhat brash manner, or being tired. Though she was used to fighting with a certain attitude of taking damage and just working through it, she promised herself that from now on she would be more careful about getting hurt.

"I'm beginning to think I'm the only normal person in this school." She smiled to show that she was joking and turned to Pippi. "Okay, I think you and Victor won. But if we fight again? I'm totally going to take you both down."

Alanna grinned. "Not all about winning, ya know. At least, that's what Duke Gareth tells the nice boys who I beat at fencing."

Nadia nodded, giving a knowing smile. "Sometimes, it's about running away."

Alanna made a face. "Due to being a whole five feet tall, not a very good option for me. Galloping away, now that works." She grinned.

Nadia shrugged. "Just so long as it's away." She pushed herself to her feet, revelling briefly at the ease with which she did it. "Well," she said, nodding to Alanna, Victor, and Pippi. "This has been a lot of fun, but I have to get some homework done before class tomorrow." She smiled at Alanna. "Same time next week?"

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