Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Jack » August 4th, 2020, 6:44 am

"Oh, I'm definitely blaming you," Malcym muttered in good humor to her response. "And I'll flaming haunt you until the moment of my rebirth."

It was an idle threat, somehow, somewhere deep down, he knew. He suspected the moment he left the waking world, he would respun into the Pattern somewhere down the line. His mother had imparted enough book thumping into his skull to know the whims of the Wheel of Time and Pattern of the Ages to respect it.

As the small Gaidin went into her pose, Malcym followed suit. Back straight, feet at the appropriate width, bow up and hand on string.

"Stories say you were both heroes of the Battle of the Lights," he murmured, looking straight ahead, "but that you didn't meet until after you were both raised. That it was meeting rare in the pattern."

His silver-blue eyes were still on the targets ahead when he added without thinking ... "I suppose it odd given his thread ends with this life, this spin of the Wheel ... "

You flaming idiot! He remembered the brief conversation with the Indigo five nights from the Tower walls. How he saw life differently now ... how had the Pattern been different, he would have seen so many more decades and centuries ... but that would be it. He was clever, that Asha'man, leaving enough hints for a soldier as simple as he to figure things out. Malcym loved puzzles, especially the complex ones, but on that particular night, in that moment, the answers might as well have been written in large letters in front of a city hall.

Worst of all, at this particular moment, was the realization that the Asha'man had not told his Warder this little tidbit. Well, that and the fact that the Asha'man had told him as much followed by a not-so-vague threat to break his legs should he speak of such things.

"What's next?" he asked. "Besides the desire to shoot me?"
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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Bella » August 8th, 2020, 10:41 pm

Something quiet and sad that lived its life toward the shadowed recesses of her heart rose to the surface, but she'd had decades of practice with keeping such things in their places until it was safe to indulge them. She heard this little fool's words and they danced with that tiny demon, but she pushed it away.

Her eyes were black but flat, opaque and matte rather than glistening with any sign of emotion. Little...human seemed to reside in them now, though luckily for him, the Darkness was not there.

She moved her bow so she could 'speak' and said. 'Your legs are spread too far. A strong wind will knock you down. Bring them in, but not so far as to close them.' She waited for him to do so, evaluating his stance, then nodded once. 'Better. How does the posture feel? Is it awkward or natural?'

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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Jack » August 9th, 2020, 12:19 am

There was something off about the Gaidin before she demonstrated the next stance.

Malcym couldn’t put a finger on it, the changes were so minute. A slight ... odor, an ever so shift in the body. And those eyes. Could they have gotten harder, more absent?

A shiver raced down his spine at that last thought. The problem, of course, was whether to determine if it was part of or all of what he had said that had offended the Warder.

Of course, the drin snapped into the appropriate posture for the bow. He narrowed the distance his legs had spread until the small Warder nodded and he felt more balanced.

“Less awkward with the stance than with my foot in my mouth,” he muttered. As far as unspoken apologies went, it wasn’t Malcym’s best.
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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Bella » August 9th, 2020, 9:59 pm

She didn't acknowledge the words that lived in the general town of an apology without sharing a house. Simply nodded once at his posture and then took up an arrow. Lysira raised her eyes in a silent 'pay attention' and then showed him how to place the notch at the end of the arrow onto the bowstring.

Three fingers on the string--the three in the middle--with one above the fletching and two below. She did not pull on the string but simply held it, arrow pointed down, while showing him the positioning of his hand. She waited for him to replicate her.

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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Jack » August 10th, 2020, 1:07 am

“I’m sorry,” were the words that escaped Malcym’s lips, sincere as any other pledge he might make.

Those words came just before he assumed the position that the Gaidin showed him. He notched the arrow, placed two fingers below the fletching and one above .. pointed it toward the ground ...

... and heard the flaming donkeys start braying.

Two of them.

“ ... He’s flaming going to try again! How many times is that!”

“Five times as far I know ... no, six! He managed to hurl the bow a hundred paces last time!”

Malcym’s body tensed for a few seconds and he looked sideways at the Gaidin. And he shook his head. He closed his blue-green eyes.

He knew the voices. Both of them drin he had defeated in previous sparring sessions.

“I swear by the Creator that if you two don’t remove yourselves from this course, I will flaming hunt you down and whip you with this bow,” he said. He didn’t look back.

“You and what flaming army?” said one. “Or is your traitor savior of an Asha’man going to come in to save you? What use is a weakling, traitor Indigo like him anyway?”

Two Drin’far’ji, in the lattermost of their training, insulting him and ...

He relaxed the drawstring ... and the bow dropped to the earth as a hand went to the Gaidin’s arm. He shook his head, never once assuming how she would react.

This is my problem he signed, almost as if begging her not to turn.

And without even a second thought, he whirled on his heels and marched toward the other two drin, unarmed. The other two held training swords, along with their actual weapons. Both were months ahead of him in training, both Andoran, reeking of nobility.

“What did you say of an Asha’man?” he asked.

One of two, the bold one, smirked. “The Captain-General will deal with him, if not then the Hall. He’s a traitor, seeking ...”

“... nothing but a place to live out his life,” Malcym said simply. “You spout lies spread by a bitter Green Asha’man.”

“Maybe ... or maybe we should as good servants of the Tower take it upon ourselves to visit ...”

Malcym grasped the speaking Drin’s coat and drew him close. When his companion reacted, a stare from the young soldier stopped him.

“Don’t ever, ever speak anything of the sort about ANY channeler to me,” he growled. “Especially that one, or I will tell HIS warder about it. You know, Lysira Gaidin, who is flaming sharp with a sword.”

The boy he held shuddered. He .... reeked of fear. Not of Malcym, but something else.

“Yes ... understood ...” Before Macym let go of the other drin, he said simply, “You’ll report yourself to the Master of Training for discipline, please. Disrupting an archery lesson is most unbecoming two trainees.”

The drin nodded and so did his companion. He suspected it was mostly out of fear about said Asha’man’s Gaidin more than anything else. The second he released one, the pair fled.

Within seconds, he was back at Lysira Gaidin’s side, bow and arrow in hand, his posture and her instructions once again mimicked.

“Please don’t harm them,” he murmured. “They’re boys who need stern education and disruption of ... foreign thoughts .. ones perpetrated by men knocked down and Green with anger ...”

If there were ever a time for him to be subtle, well, he wasn’t quite so skilled, but he hoped the Gaidin was.
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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Bella » August 12th, 2020, 7:22 pm

Lysira just arched a brow at the entire interaction, which she of course had paid close attention to and considered...though she had chosen to let him handle it and see what he did. Those two were frequently troublemakers and it would not go unnoticed by the trainers of the yards, but she didn't step in this time.

She met Ashe's eyes, her own with a considering gaze before she inclined her head in acknowledgement that she would not do anything with them...

Right now.

So, she turned back to the training. She took a look at his posture, his grip on the string. She pointed out one correction and then returned to the posture herself. She lifted the bow, glancing over her shoulder to make sure he was following her, then felt the wind and lifted her bow just slightly. She released the arrow.

It sailed across the range, landing--naturally--in the bullseye. Her herons weren't for nothing, after all.

Lowering the bow, she turned back to him and nodded for him to try. She wanted to see where he was starting once he tried with the correct posture, and then she'd go from there.

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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Jack » August 12th, 2020, 10:31 pm

Malcym’s eyes sparked with relief, perhaps the only indication of a sigh from the young soldier at Lysira’s nod of agreement.

A small part of him had feared she might have done something ... violent given that they had hinted at harm toward her Asha’man. The trainees were ignorant, foolish ... and young and in need of someone to knock their skulls free of the bloody nonsense they were spewing.

At worst, they would probably wash out of the Yards. At best ... maybe they would take longer to earn the right to wear the fancloak.

And so, the matter turned back to the lesson at hand and the Warder fired. A solid shot to say the least. But then a master archer such as herself could hit her target blindfolded, in her sleep while surrounded by a thousand Trollocs who were singing a Whitecloak hymn.

He made the necessary correction to his own form and followed through on the Gaidin’s offer.

The arrow flew from the bow ... and plunked onto the target ... on the outer edge of the target right within the ring. Malcym frowned slightly, his grip tightening on the bow.

“Well, at least I didn’t kill anyone by overshooting,” he muttered.
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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Bella » August 19th, 2020, 12:26 am

'So far,' she signed.

Was she joking? Was she serious that she thought he was likely to kill someone with his incompentence? It was, quite literally, impossible to tell from what she let out. Only she knew--as Jerid would know over the bond, wherever in the Tower he was at now--that she was actually cracking a joke.

It would just be her little secret.

For now, she kept her bow leaning against her hip with one corner in the ground. Speaking with her hands could make some things better, but more often than not, it was a pain in the arse. Like now. Still, one did what one must. 'Unlike almost any other weapon, use of the bow requires an intimate knowledge of the environment around you.

'While this may be true with all weapons and all fighting, because of how it affects you, you must know here because of how it affects the weapon itself. The ground will change your posture and your angle. The wind will change the trajectory of your arrow. You must be aware of everything, and then know how it will affect your efforts. Do you understand?
'

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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Jack » August 19th, 2020, 2:04 am

Malcym blinked, his silver-blue eyes slightly confused with Lysira's brief comment. The woman was impossible to read. And if there were ever a sense of ... smell that came off her, it was one of complete calm.

Light, but she was an impossible conundrum.

But the next part of the lesson took precedent. And her words were soaked up like a sponge. When it came to weapons and their impacts, he paid attention like any good soldier.

"Aye, Gaidin," he murmured. "Anything as subtle as just wearing one shoe on uneven ground might cause an arrow to hit the arse of a mounted ally instead of the enemy if you're not attentive ... and shooting into a maelstrom like an idiot could likely end with one's own arrow through one's heart or through a foot."
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Re: Long shots and misfires (attn: Lysira Gaidin)

Post by Bella » August 26th, 2020, 5:38 pm

'Precisely,' she signed with the faintest of twists upward at the corner of her mouth. She waved around them and then toward the target. 'Tell me what you feel now. The ground, the air, the sky and the light. What do you see, hear, feel? How do you think it would affect your shooting?'

OOC: Sorry for the short post. Brain is not braining well right now. :P

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