This is why she wants to practice with him more - this is why she wants to have him as a training partner. Marcoulf is quick and sharp, dangerous and deadly, and she wants to learn how best to fight back against that. She is more accustomed to monsters and beasts, dragons and beholders and the many things that might devour a group at home, but here? It is men and Darkspawn.

Dragons are a little less common.

Six literally stumbles back to avoid the movement of his rapier, feeling it almost scrape across the fabric of her cotton shirt. Breathing out hard, she slips back and ignores the wince as she uses her hand to hold herself up, to stop her hitting the ground completely before she leaps to try and get back to her feet.