[Backdated to Wednesday afternoon]

[justaflowergirl]

Characters: Cirno, Juri Arisugawa, Yuka Kazami, and anyone else who might come by.
Format: any
This log is: open
Location: Conquest courtyards
Summary: After-battle conversation.
Warnings: none

Yuka smiled as she poured Juri's tea.

On the face of it, someone might call their fight rather disappointing - the younger girl had obviously been unprepared for an opponent who could fly, and Master Spark had taken her completely by surprise.

Yuka thought otherwise. Even in the face of those shocks, Juri had wielded her blade with authority - and far more skill than Yuka could claim with the one she was using. The outcome may not have been in doubt, but she'd made Yuka work for it. Given more experience with the unusual, Juri would be formidable.

Yuka was looking forward to it.

Once she'd poured cups for Cirno and herself, she stowed her thermos and sat down. She didn't say anything yet though. Juri had the look of someone with questions, so she'd wait for them.

Comments

[jurist]

Juri leaned forward a bit, intrigued. She had figured that Yuka simply fought for the fun of it, but perhaps there was more to it after all.

"Why is it, then?"

[justaflowergirl]

"I think it's something very simple - for practice. The outcome of these duels may be meaningless - although our headmistress seems to feel otherwise - but the skills gained in the process are not. And someday, there will be battles those skills are put to the test, where the outcome does matter."

Yuka leaned back, fidgeting with her cup a bit. "Of course, that's only my theory. But it's the best explanation I've been able to come up with for some of the peculiarities of the Exaclan system. And when the time comes, I may not wish to follow the path being laid out for us... Lelouch's speech raises certain doubts. But whatever comes, I intend to be ready for it."