[color=ed1c24][center][h2]Akeno[/h2][/center][/color]

Waiting had always been a difficult task for Akeno.

Well, not ‘waiting’ exactly, but the ‘doing nothing’ that came with waiting around was something that she just couldn’t stand. So whenever she had to wait for something, whether it was waiting for a friend to show up or waiting a class to start or waiting between rounds of a tournament, Akeno would always try to find something to occupy her time. She would do her homework in the hallway outside the classroom or she would practice katas even though she should be conserving her energy and if she couldn’t do anything productive, then she would read; there was always a book in her bag, even though reading usually bored her, because reading a boring book was better than doing absolutely nothing.

And because she got in trouble for doing katas in school once, so she had to find something else.

She supposed that made her an impatient person, but doing nothing just… bothered her in a way she couldn’t articulate. But as everyone else either prepared to head into the cave or readied their weapons or set up traps, Akeno found herself with nothing to really do. Her weapon, as dumb as it probably was, was her body and she had no idea how to go about making a trap; even though baiting the thing in the cave outside the cave so they could fight it, she really didn’t have anything more to contribute beyond that initial idea. Not until the fighting started anyway.

So she filled the time in by stretching; limbering up the arms and legs of a body not used to hard labour or physical effort; a body that hadn’t seen bruises or cuts; hadn’t bloodied its knuckles or sprained its ankles or exerted itself to the point that every muscle hurt the next day. Not yet anyway.

She wasn’t looking forward to the aches tomorrow would bring.

As she was trying and failing to bend forward and touch her toes, the orc who had been punching the tree, the boxer, spoke up and asked about the plan. It was a fair question to ask, but unfortunately all Akeno could do in response was to straighten up and shrug.

[color=ed1c24]“I’ll probably throw a fireball or two but… no, that’s pretty much as far as I got. I don’t think any of us really have the skills or material to do anything more than what we are right now and the person who’s idea it was to come here in the first place disappeared, so…”[/color] Another shrug. [color=ed1c24]“We bait. We pummel. And if it’s too tough, we run.”[/color]

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