Firm, stiff-backed, waiting for a dance. Because it's one thing to train them with a little droid to follow them about. Her arms sit by her side and her gaze doesn't leave his face.
Another when she's standing all 6'4, one-eyed, weapons at her sides as was standard. No dress uniform for her, as ever, her straight black fatigues. She watches him go through motions and waits, carefully, as she eyes all the other recruits to perceive a particularly spectacular fuck up.
Then strides over, to stand before him. Waiting until after the droid pelts him with glitter before she moves. Gives him a moment to register it's her and then exactly as the duelling instruction prescribed but without warning, she strikes him. ]
Your performance offends me.
[ It, like the slap, isn't truly meant, there is no venom in her words. Merely, testing. Open palm, not hard enough to hurt but enough to sting.
wildcard
Firm, stiff-backed, waiting for a dance. Because it's one thing to train them with a little droid to follow them about. Her arms sit by her side and her gaze doesn't leave his face.
Another when she's standing all 6'4, one-eyed, weapons at her sides as was standard. No dress uniform for her, as ever, her straight black fatigues. She watches him go through motions and waits, carefully, as she eyes all the other recruits to perceive a particularly spectacular fuck up.
Then strides over, to stand before him. Waiting until after the droid pelts him with glitter before she moves. Gives him a moment to register it's her and then exactly as the duelling instruction prescribed but without warning, she strikes him. ]
Your performance offends me.
[ It, like the slap, isn't truly meant, there is no venom in her words. Merely, testing. Open palm, not hard enough to hurt but enough to sting.
His move now. ]