Aery blinked. She'd never fought someone who didn't want to hurt her, except maybe Peter, and that was only after she'd been utterly pounded into the mats a few times, and he'd had nothing left to prove to her.
"Alright then...." She tossed the stick out of the ring. It would just get in her way. Trying to ignore the trembling excitement in her bones, she entered the arena, uncoiling some of the rope around her hand. "Alright then..." She bowed to Orion, standard dueling etiquette, and retreated to a corner of the mats.