The Salle, Monday Morning

[bitchprince]

Arthur wasn't strictly speaking in the right shape to really cut loose. He'd settled, grudgingly, for a lighter staff instead of his sword to train with. Even so, he was likely overextending some of his muscles.

He didn't like the limitations that came with being wounded.

He still had a few claw scratches on his face, but he'd been assured they would heal well enough and without scarring (which was a good thing, because he wasn't yet of the age where he could manage his father's dignified facial scars). Modern medicine or whatever it was they'd given him meant he wasn't going to wind up bleeding or anything.

So it was going to have to be enough. He twirled the staff through the air and started a simple form.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah had slept like the dead the night before, woke up as ready as she could for action, then been relieved that apparently, none of the gremlins were back in the dorms. Or, well, anywhere.

She wandered down to the salle, sore and bruised, and yawned as she gave Arthur a "Hey. You all right?"

[bitchprince]

Oh, please. If he could tell Morgana he was fine a minute before passing out, the "I'm fine," Dinah got was downright Oscar-award-winning. "Eskrima today. Again. Don't get wounded next week."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was eying the staff in an Oh yeah, you're fine way, and saying, "For once, no argument. Because I did enough sword stuff this weekend. And as fun as it would be throw down with you about that, I'm not getting wounded again any time soon."

[bitchprince]

"Which you would be," he allowed, "Most likely. You took on the gremlins by blade?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"And telekinesis. Easier than a shield for me," Dinah said, picking up a set of sticks. "Then flashlights after the light thing got figured out. Saw that Morgana did the same thing."

[bitchprince]

"Morgana proved to be somewhat resourceful when she was stationed at Caritas," Arthur acquiesced, shooting her a look, "But don't let that get back to her. She'll be insufferable."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah gave him a highly entertained look, and spun the eskrima in her hands. "Um. You do remember who you're talking to, right?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Did you get your bandages changed yet today?" Meet Merlin. He could be a mother hen when not on the hunt for his maybe father.

[bitchprince]

Arthur, on the other hand, never got less suicidal about his injuries. "Not yet," Arthur said, rolling his eyes a bit. "It's still early days."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin just bitchfaced at him. Bitchfaced like a pro.

[bitchprince]

"I am actually capable of gauging when it's necessary to do so," Arthur retorted.

It wasn't like he didn't get injured enough.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Isn't it odd that I don't really believe that?" Merlin asked.

[bitchprince]

"You believe a lot of odd things," Arthur pointed out. "I've given up on judging. It only gives me a headache."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin shot him another look. "I'll tell Francine and she'll give you eyes until you stop being a moron."

[thatsamilkshake]

Raise your hand if you're surprised that his phone buzzed at him with

< How's your head? >

followed shortly thereafter by


< Did he get his bandages changed again? >

Because. Separated at birth.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

< fiine! and im working on thatt > Merlin typed back without much difficulty.

[thatsamilkshake]

<So that would be no. Boys R dumb.>

5 second delay.

<Boys who are not you R dumb.>

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

He was about to say!

< i shold hope so!! ;D >

[thatsamilkshake]

< Sometimes girls R dumb too. Like one we know who WENT AND BEAT ON GREMLINS IN THE PRESERVE.>

[solo_sword]

Jaina had some time this morning and her player was actually around, so she changed up her training routine a bit to head down to the salle for some practice.

"You look like you've seen better days," she greeted him.

[bitchprince]

"It was a long weekend," Arthur said, dryly. She wasn't asking him how he was doing, so an answer that wasn't a kneejerk 'I'm fine' was well within its place. "But I'm pleased to see you're still in one piece."

[solo_sword]

"I think a lot of them didn't know what to do about a lightsaber, to be honest. Made things much easier for me," Jaina admitted. "And of course, even after a long weekend, you're back down here the very next day."

[bitchprince]

"I'm able to train, I don't see why I should slack off," he said, giving his staff a slight twirl. "Nothing's more annoying than being careful for so long you lose half your edge."

[solo_sword]

"I'd hope you wouldn't lose half your edge with one day off," she teased. She fought injured far more often than she should, she knew she had no place to seriously suggest a day off.

[bitchprince]

"You take one day off, and suddenly it's a week," he lectured said. "I'm just trying to set the right example. No injuries yourself?"