[h2]Rui[/h2]

The girl gave a half-hearted shrug, something not so lopsided with the ghostly limb gripping her blade. [b]"Most would work. [i]Iai[/i] may not. All is a matter of perfect form, repeated beyond perfection. Only with these blades am I so familiar and I do not expect to stay here long enough to learn such specifics."[/b]

The strike she followed up with was blatantly straightforward, nothing more than the most fundamental overhead strike. But the [i]speed[/i] the girl had closed in with was astonishing, comparable more to vampires than anything mortal. And [i]this[/i] time Fleuri would no doubt feel it, the rush of air overhead, even with the roofing behind taking some audible damage.

It seemed this had gotten another party's interest, the resident paladin leaning under her parasol and looking at the pair with some amusement. "Hey, could you pull back a little earlier? Fixing this is a pain."