"Oh yeah, that makes sense, there's lots of stuff where the idea isn't that hard, but the execution is. Like learning a proper fencing riposte, you're working on a straight line so the idea of maintaining momentum from a parry is extremely simple but then it turns out that, like, you have muscles in your wrists and your arms [i]and[/i] your legs that you just never use that way in normal life and so you have to build all of them up properly before you can get your body to do the thing that you think you understand with your head."

Yuki nods, and her ears bob happily. This is great. Talking shop is fun and there's some spirit in Eclair talking about this that makes Yuki's heart hurt less, and she just wants to...to focus. 

Like, maybe Purnima Karn-Pana wasn't the right choice earlier. She doesn't regret trying to find something in the snake girl, there's still hope there, but it took like a week of "captivity" and a fling that she knows is grating at Suli's heart just to get a tiny glimmer of something from Purnima. Makes you wonder if she had made the best use of her time in Thellamie is all. But...no don't think about that, focus on Eclair. She nods along, flexes her own arms and wrists where she had worked so hard to build up her fencing memory, so different with a light foil than a huge axe. This...this is catching up with an old friend, and a special one at that.

Since Yuki is nattering on by herself, she barely notices before Eclair walks into this other girl apparently named Mayzie. She mentally kicks herself for not watching where either of them were going before doing her own double take at the fact that [i]Eclair[/i] wasn't watching where she was going. Maybe things weren't that much better. 

"Mayzie? Oh, do you know the mystery builder?" she asks smoothly. "She was just showing me through the hallways, after she helped save me from an assassin who...er...wait is that a state secret or anything? Um...haha, well, never mind, I'm sure Thellamie balls are filled with assassins doing all sorts of um...assassiny things. Anyway, the mystery builder was going to teach me a new technique to better defend myself and my charges as a knight. It sounds like you two know each other too! Well, my name's Yuki Edogawa. I was operating under a secret identity too but I got...uh kidnapped...yeah kidnapped for a little bit and was announced under my real name at the ball tonight so y'know, that's just how it is." Yuki holds out her hand for a warm handshake. "Pleasure to meet you, though! How do you two know each other?"