Aighrit could have made a move while she was twirling, it took longer to turn your entire body around on its axis than to step forward with a leg placed in between an opponent’s to interrupt their circular movement, but he didn’t. His strike was already in the air, and she would be returning with her own. His would hit first if she had moved too far from her center of mass with her arm, and would hit at the same time if she kept the blade at waist level which, as it soon became apparent as the clash of their blades resounded across the courtyard, it had been the second option. As she stepped back and into a crouched position with her blade raised he attempted to catch her eye, smiling all the while. It showed that she had the ability to adapt to changing conditions which was critical on the sands, but it also put him into a position where he had to be the aggressor. Being proactive was good on in a fight, especially when taking ground and options from the opponent, but she was now prepared and ready to move as soon as he made his own attempt at putting his blade upon her. 

He would still need to make a move regardless of his thoughts as to her position and her capacity to learn on her feet, and so he did, though it was unlikely she would have expected the exact nature this attempt would take. She would likely be expecting a strike geared at disarming her or at bringing her back to the ground with the off chance of a direct blow toward her body, probably toward her head as she was now crouched. He instead would make an attempt at disrupting her and her plans. He didn’t charge, and should she have wanted to she could have made an attempt to move out of his way or even backpedal in a circular pattern to keep him at a distance, at least for a while. Regardless of if she did, assuming she was still holding her blade in one hand and keeping her other hand up in an attempt to guard he would simply wait until he was within striking range, taking care never to get so close as to allow her to dart out unexpectedly with her blade and take him in mid-step or to have no room to maneuver and no time to block if she lunged and struck at him. 

As soon as he was within a step of striking range and assuming she made no move to change tack and slash or charge toward him, he would half step forward and stand with his left leg just slightly in front of his right leg and thrust low toward her leg before slowing to a near stop midway and instead turning at his left hip and shoulder upwards, sending his blade in a looping arc to her raised hand held to attempt to grab at him, a relatively speaking slow strike but one he expected she would either be led to think was actually a thrust towards her legs and which she might respond to with a block toward that direction leaving her opposite off hand and arm open to his strike and her blade moving in the wrong direction to stop it, or which in the worst case scenario might elicit her to simply move forward and into her own strike which would still leave his blade in between himself and her unless she managed to fancily dart around him and toward his right, her left. In case of this he had not lunged or even more than half stepped into his strike, keeping his right leg open to either backpedal, sidestep or even kick or knee forwards if necessary. 

Should the strike land or at least swing through thin air and assuming he didn’t need to backpedal he would once more slow in the air before bending at the shoulder and hip in the opposite to his original direction and downwards, sending the real blow hurtling down and toward either her still exposed hand, her sword hand or her clavicle depending on how she moved to intercept his first strike or if she had moved at all. This, because she was crouched, never caused him to have to move his arm at any point above her height level which had she been standing would have left him uncomfortably exposed in the lower body and underarm to a potential thrust from her direction, still allowing the blade to float at least at her shoulder and head level at its highest point before being brought back down upon her, allowing him the option of using it to instead be placed point towards her body assuming she did charge while he backpedaled or sidestepped, leaving him the most options and taking advantage of the maximum amount of potential openings as well as putting together a brutal series of blows whose angles would be difficult to predict, his own right and off hand held open and at a reserved place a few inches in front of and to the side of his head. 

Aighrit was a student, but he was no beginner. He knew enough to know that placing the most obstacles in the opponent’s way while striking at and weakening if not outright taking one’s opponent’s tools away from them was the path to victory in an extended bout. Quick kills were rare on the sands and weren’t possible in a training bout with practice swords, and the tactics and discipline which reigned supreme on the battlefields of the war fighters held little and less viability when alone and staring down an opponent who knew where you were before the fight had commenced and whom knew that no reinforcements, no fire support in the form of peltasts, and no shield walls or palisades would be found. If she reacted to the first feint she would be likely to be caught by the second, and if she caught the feint in time to react to the second blow it was still unlikely to expect the third. Low and straight, upwards and looping, downwards and slashing, changes in angle all in a matter of moments was not something that was easily understood without years of practice, he himself having only gotten it after the first year of being caught by the same type of techniques. Rags could of course have ran toward him, lunged and thrust before he did or forced him to change his plans in any other way, but this was why he would wait until he was in the range he wanted to be to attempt any of this, and left himself the distance and the time which comes with it to be able to react to her movements if she did anything which would necessitate a change on his part.