Janius' proper attack was placed as well as it could have been, but Kaleeth did a good job in twisting so that it wouldn't hit her properly. The nature of her next moves were as vicious as Janius predicted. Powerful strikes landed upon Janius' body with impact enough to wind him. He curled his upper body forward with his elbows near his torso and his arms up in an attempt to defend himself.

Though there were opportunities to land small strikes in return, the only big opening was a possible hook to the side of Kaleeth's head. However, the blow that Janius could land might seriously injured her, and at the same time they had agreed to avoid landing blows to the head. Janius compromised by suddenly shooting his knee up into Kaleeth's middle and trying to push her off momentarily.

"Easy. Arms up." Janius said with a bit of strain during the momentary lapse, "Your head was way too open there."

Gallus took Peiter firmly by the shoulder when he approached. "Alright, lad. Did you get to see Ri'vashi fight there? D'you reckon we could take her on?" He let Peiter go and stepped back, "Let me see your stance first." A few check-ups to Peiter's technique would pad the time between now and properly challenging the clan leader to another bout.

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Tzirret gave the liver in his hands a look of surprise. He didn't any of what Ma'tanza had mentioned before now. "Wow. Tzirret would have thought that something that did that would be more complicated."

As they took out more and more organs, Tzirret started to get used to the gore. He only had to take a quick break twice. Once after they opened the stomach, and again when they broke open the skull to see the brain. Thankfully Tzirret didn't quite throw up on either occasion.

Each of the organs had features and functions that Tzirret had only heard about for the first time. He didn't know to think about how complex they all were as they worked together, but there seemed to be an endless amount of knowledge in just this corpse. And what Tzirret was being taught was only the basics.

By the time they finished with it, the corpse was unrecognisable and all but butchered. Those in the kitchen only had to separate cuts and portions and sort everything out for storage. Despite feeling occasionally sick, Tzirret had a smile on his face after all was said and done.

"This one thanks you, Ma'tanza. He has learned a lot." Tzirret said sincerely, facing Ma'tanza. He took a half-step towards her, but stopped and looked at his hands. Half the length of each of his arms were covered in blood and bodily fluids. "Uh..." he laughed nervously, "He would hug you, but...maybe we should clean up first."