This cannot be her umbrella.

That's the only thought that actively crosses her mind, but there's a quick, intuitive series of leaps behind that. It cannot be her umbrella, but it is an umbrella she can fight with, here, behind the scenes, where the fey rule. There is a Rakasha about, and it's identity still unknown. The Rakasha wants her to fight Uusha.

Use what tools are to hand, even if it disgusts you.

She takes the umbrella and passes it from hand to hand, in a low guard, as Uusha shakes off Azazuka and stands, preparing her own spear. She doesn't take the chance, here, to go on the offensive, instead catching her breath and resettling herself. She watches, carefully, as Uusha circles, waiting for the strike. One's best defense is to not be there, and in a contest of strength, it's clear who'd win. So she ducks away from the opening stab and parries the followup, umbrella a rod of solid hardwood one second and then bending like a willow branch the next to slip around Uusha's guard and jab at her arm. No damage, just after space, and she retreats a few steps under the following barrage of spear-strikes. Enough space to enact her plan.

"Uusha! Rakasha, fey, false faced, lie-speaker and bearer of false oaths! Thus I name you!"

And now the Rakasha (who is certainly not Uusha, to be clear) has way more to work with. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Stag Knight.

[quote]6+2 to Fight with Grace. I am provoking Uusha to get a String, and then striking not at her heart, but at the court of public opinion, and thus creating an opportunity for Vixen (not that I know that she's the Rakasha).[/quote]