[backdated to before the storm]

[jurist]

Characters: Juri and whoever else happens by
Format: Any
This log is: open
Location: The Fortitude gym
Summary: Fencing practice.
Warnings: None as yet.

Juri had gone to check out Fortitude's gym as soon as she was able to, and had been gratified to find that its storage rooms were well-equipped with fencing gear (along with the necessary implements to play every other sport Juri could name and some that she couldn't, apparently). So she'd kitted herself out and taken a foil and gone into the main room to do some basic drills. Of course, this situation was hardly ideal for practice: the unfamiliar equipment felt strange, and there was only so much she could do in the absence of an opponent. But she had to keep her skills honed, didn't she? It wouldn't do to go getting rusty.

Besides, she had to admit that there was something comforting in the familiar, repetitive rhythm of the drills. She could just let her muscles work and not have to think about, well, any of the things she'd rather not be thinking about right now.

Comments

[jurist]

"Thank you, but I'm all right. As you say, it isn't so bad as all that. It's simply been... an adjustment."

After all, when was the last time she'd been off the grounds of Ohtori for any significant length of time? Not in years, she was fairly sure. And this place, for all its similarities, was still rather unfamiliar. Besides, she hated not knowing what the purpose of all this dueling was. At home, they had at least been clear on that point.

[knightime]

if you say so
question
how long have you been fencing?

They're told it's to go home, but he doesn't get why they got dragged here to win a stupid game in the first place. But eh. He's not super curious about it. It's a lot tamer than the last game he played.

[jurist]

"I began in junior high, which would be..." She paused for a moment, her brow wrinkling a bit as she thought it over. "About four years ago, now." It sounded like such a short time when she put it that way; it felt as though it had been much longer than that.