She stood back a moment, watching how the first few steps would be taken. Fights like this were always stilted to begin with, but as soon as the blows were landing it began to come alive. But the new girl, Makoto, seemed frozen in thought. She sidled over to her, and spoke in a quiet voice. "Relax. You're new, untrained, no-one is expecting the earth of you. But a battle is in the arms and the legs and the heart, not in the mind." The circumstances didn't really allow for much else, so she quickly ran a few paces forward and countered Mimics offensive stance. She sent a flare of magical energy just above his heard, bright and beautiful but most-of-all distracting, and then sent three sharp dark blasts immediately after.