In one moment, Gwenaëlle is moving fluidly through a familiar drill — rehearsing the motions of freeing and holstering blades in motion, utilizing frames to climb and fall and catch herself, a particularly athletic, balletic form of eluding danger and causing it instead — and then she has stopped, frowning, hanging upside down by her knees with a pair of runic daggers ready in her hands. Her braids hang down, nearly touching the ground, and it is a more than slightly unsettling way to make full eye contact with someone.
Or, you know, half eye contact. As the case may be.
She rights herself, sliding blade to holster as she braces to consider the quickest way down, leading with her hips to throw herself from her current vantage point to swing lower until she can safely drop to her feet, the way she was definitely always capable of doing despite several refusals to get out of a tree unless someone caught her.
It's a clever sleight of hand, the way she handles her crystal as if she's just had a message on it, but she marches directly to Ness and catches her by the elbow, walking them both away from the training yard.
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In one moment, Gwenaëlle is moving fluidly through a familiar drill — rehearsing the motions of freeing and holstering blades in motion, utilizing frames to climb and fall and catch herself, a particularly athletic, balletic form of eluding danger and causing it instead — and then she has stopped, frowning, hanging upside down by her knees with a pair of runic daggers ready in her hands. Her braids hang down, nearly touching the ground, and it is a more than slightly unsettling way to make full eye contact with someone.
Or, you know, half eye contact. As the case may be.
She rights herself, sliding blade to holster as she braces to consider the quickest way down, leading with her hips to throw herself from her current vantage point to swing lower until she can safely drop to her feet, the way she was definitely always capable of doing despite several refusals to get out of a tree unless someone caught her.
It's a clever sleight of hand, the way she handles her crystal as if she's just had a message on it, but she marches directly to Ness and catches her by the elbow, walking them both away from the training yard.