Wednesday Noonish: Salle - by the Gun Range

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter arrived at the salle a bit earlier than his arranged meeting time.  He set the practice weapons he'd borrowed from the gym off to the side and started stretching.  He looked over the room with pride and a bit of impatience.  He was more than happy to teach Willow, but he very much wanted to use his own sword as well.  When was Setsuna's coming?

On Monday, he'd handwavily set up mats and some more lights in the room making it functional though he still had dreams about something on the walls to muffle the noise and a barrier from the gun range.  Still, all in all, it was better than nothing.

He continued to stretch out as he went through his lesson plan in his head.



[[OOC: Sword area is open.  Feel free to stop by though Peter's going to be mostly focused on Willow.  Will actually put in game announcements up at some point.  And yes, Peter's wearing the Swedish flag.]]

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow came in wearing shorts, a T-shirt with pictures of cartoon puppies on it (darn Jamie), sneakers, and her hair back in a braid.

She still tried a curtsey. "Sir Peter."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter jumped up and bowed. "Lady Willow! Happy Midsummer to you!"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Happy Midsummer to you!" she said. "I see you're wearing the blue and gold today. Should I try to match you for this evening?"

Not that she'd been obsessing over outfits or anything.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter laughed. "This is the fulfillment of my bet with Pippi. Though I suppose it's strangely appropriate given the day."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"You look very fetching in a flag," Willow said. "I think blue's your color."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Still laughing, Peter bowed. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart." He grinned at Willow's shirt. "And I like the puppies."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow blushed. "It's comfy. Plus I've sort of had them on the brain. Not literally, just in case you were worried."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'll try not to be," Peter replied. "That sounds uncomfortable." He looked at Willow appraisingly. "So how much do you know about swordwork? Or fighting in general?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"A very small amount," Willow said. "I can handle stakes okay if the vampire is particularly slow or distracted. I've never really done much with swords. I'm told I'm a good kicker though."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter nodded. "You're probably better at kicking than I am. I'm still just learning that discipline."

He continued to revise his lesson plan in his head as he went over to pick up the practice swords he brought down.

"Really? The most important thing you need to remember with a sword is that while the pointy end goes in the other man, it's just as likely to hurt you if you aren't careful." He handed Willow one of the practice blades to see if it was too heavy for her. "How does that feel, just holding it?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow held it first with two hands, then with one. "A little on the heavy side. Is that good? Means I'll be clubbing the other guy extra hard?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki was about to just burst through the door, but, not only is she a little breathless from the combination of excitement and rushing down a bunch of stairs, but she does realize that she's being very un-warrior like, she stops a moment before entering the range. Deep breath. She probably had some time before Peter would be there anyway, and, since he was being so good about his sword in Yuunagi's absense, then she would respect that and not use hers until he got there. She composes herself, opening the door and stepping in with Yuunagi still slung against her back.

And nearly drops it seeing Peter and Willow inside. All this good news can't be good for her. "Oh! You're already here!" Internal squee of explicite happiness.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved. "Hey! Peter's teaching me swordwork. Or he's trying to anyway. I'm learning where the pointy end goes."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Setsuna!" Peter said with a bow. "She came?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki laughs, good-heartedly, at Willow, smile practically glowing. "That's the most important part," she nods.

"And she did, Peter, look!" Giving a small tug to the red string, the sword on her back, which is very narrow, but nearly as tall as she is, swings up over her shoulder. She snatches up the hilt as she releases the string, all in one fluid movement, dropping the sheathed end into her other hand, fingers wrapping around it, ready to pull the sword out. But she doesn't follow through with that natural action; Sakurazaki instead simply hold it out for them to see, marveling a bit at how gorgeous she looks, so smooth in her simple, narrow sheath.

[[ooc: for reference: nodachi compared to regular sword (http://bujinkangreece.free.fr/IMG/jpg/paketo-ken.jpg), good look at how the sheath works (http://www.sworddemon.com/productimages/bdk/main/BK819_BK813.jpg) ]]

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter looked closely with the respect due an excellent weapon. "She's lovely. Absolutely magnificent, Setsuna."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Isn't she, though?" Sakurazaki beams, settling Yuunagi back into her resting position against her back. A small bit of serious concern crosses her face. "Do you know if I have to do any paperwork or anything regarding having her now? Like, to register her or something like that? I missed the procedure at the begining of the term for obvious reasons..."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so," Peter replied. "When I brought Rhindon in, the Principal just took him and put him in the weapons' locker with the others. So other than leaving her there when you leave here today." A sad look crossed his face. "I still hate that." But he grinned again, too excited to be somber for long. "So, are you going to try her out then?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"That all depends, really," she says with a grin. "Are you going to get out Rhindon?" He had better say yes.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely," Peter said with a huge grin and almost a Bridge-like bounce.

He didn't run because that would be undignified, but he certainly hurried over to the weapons locker. Quickly he opened it up and pulled out his sword (http://costumes.narniaweb.com/pevensiesfiles/rhindonreplica.jpg) in its sheath. He held it for a second, just happy to feel its weight again before walking back towards Setsuna. Holding the sheathed sword across his palms, he presented it to her.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"He's beautiful!" Sakurazaki gushes. The West really knew how to decorate a sword, that was for sure!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I'll just watch if you two don't mind," Willow said, taking a seat over to the side and hopefully out of the way. "Oh! And make notes about decorating."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter shot her a glance at the mention of decorating then grinned. "You don't have to, you know. We won't accidentally hit you with our sheathed swords or anything."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Isn't he?" Peter said proudly. He closed his fingers over the hilt possessively. "The first time I saw him, I was struck pretty speechless." He grinned. "And he's good in a fight too."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"He looks like it," she smiles. "But it takes more than a good blade for a sword to be good in a fight, you know." She nods, feeling rather filled with warrior wisdom at the moment.

"And don't worry about me," she says, to address Willow's comment. "I didn't mean to interupt your work. It's been so long since I had Yuunagi that I'm extremely rusty, and should just work on my forms for a bit. Nothing too big, so I shouldn't be in the way."