Sammy pauses her assault and lets out a respectful whistle. "You know, I didn't have any idea what the fuck you were talking about earlier, but you already knew how this was gonna go, huh? Before you even started talking to me, huh Maxi? You showed up with granola bars, bandages, and what, like a scoped route out for a mile around us? Guess you're a veteran for a reason. Respect."

Sammy wipes some dirt off her face, bounces a bit on her legs. Yeah, she can already feel the bite at her ankles, she'd only been wearing high top running shoes and they didn't have a tight seal, and the water was lapping around the edge of her pants legs at her knees, the jeans getting heavier to move in with the weight of the water. And the cold would stick in that kind of fabric, nevermind how heavy her vest would get once it was soaked in water too. 

She's not seeing Maxima though, not really. She's seeing Titanomachia. Moving around her like Machia alone was the only person not wearing training weights while Sammy was already submerged above her head. Moving around Maxima and Musashi like she had the medium all to herself and it was everybody else's fault for drowning themselves. 

"But if you think this isn't what I want, you're cracked. This is the good shit! How am I ever gonna get better if I don't figure out how to move past getting dunked in freezing water and recovering from frostbite?"

Not that she's gonna do it to herself. No, Maxima isn't the only mountain goat here and she's NOT Machia either. So when Sammy kicks and pushes herself along the edge of the stormwater channel and up the side, feet pounding so hard that she's running above the water, it's the sort of movement that hasn't been seen since Gata's days. And sure, Maxima was there for it, and maybe she knows how to deal with every speedster and movement specialist there is. Except that she doesn't because she lost a bunch to Gata and she just lost to Machia. So let's see how she does against Sammy. You never know till you find out. 

Whatever happens, Sammy's smile is real and sharp, and her fists are sharper.