☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- No, look at her, and she's still asking questions. With all due respect to Kilika, she's a professional fighter and evaluates you from that perspective. For advanced followers of the School of Serenity, your performance might not seem very impressive. But how many of them will be in the audience? I don't think there will be many. And as an artist and a person of art, I believe that improvisation is a great thing. And with my requirements for safety and harmlessness, your performance looks very good as it is. Perhaps even better than if it resembled a real fight. So, I'm including you in the program.

Erephir carefully watched Beata's reaction: was she flattering him? To impose his initiative, fail to do it properly, and ultimately ruin the subordinate's initiative – that would be a disgrace for a knight. But no, it seemed that Beata was sincere.

-- Well... But we'll still take some comments into account. I suggest this: we've practiced non-contact moves, and for added spice, we'll add some contact moves as well. It's convenient with me as a partner, because even hitting me for real isn't scary; everything will heal immediately, but this will diversify our movements, add more blocks, dodges, and so on... Well, it's better not to hit each other directly; it will look like some kind of unprofessionalism. Try also to periodically retreat into the shadows, and I'll add a double move so that no one in the audience gets bored. We'll jump around, and then we'll mix up the approaches. Sorry for rushing you, but since you've entrusted yourself to me, I'll have to go all the way; I'm counting on you!

They mix things up a bit like this: