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[Maintenance]

Shun tensed up, lightly cringing from the sudden metallic screech. He glanced over to the side, seeing a mess of wires now in front of Mykanos. With a furrowed brow, he looked to his own gear.

The silence between their snippets of conversation didn't bother him particularly, so he didn't really feel the need to speak up again just yet. He just fiddled with the center piece, turning it over and looking to see where it connected into the gas cannisters.

[Blades]

The seventeen year old couldn't help but agree with Farvardin. Her hands dropped with slaps to her sides as the blades drooped diagonal to the grounds. She felt like a bird who had given up on its desire to fly. Swallowing, she tried the exercises again; the muscles in her arms burning despite the light weight of the parring blades. If her limbs had the ability to pop off, she was positive it'd happen at any moment.

One of the blades dropped from her hands as she turned to her work partner. "H-how about... we... we take turns w-watching each other?" she asked in a brisk tone, catching her breath. "W-we can point out a-any mistakes we're, um, w-with the stances." Of course, this was a thinly veiled lie; Shakuntala just wanted some time to rest before it was her go.

Bluedemonwolf

[Blades]

Shakuntala choked back a shriek when the parring blade slipped from Farvardin's slip and went careening in the opposite direction of them. Her fingers were knotted into the grass she had sat upon as if steadying the world beneath her rump. Swallowing, she stood and gave a glance around to make sure neither Santos nor Gazelle were around to see her folly. The last thing the copper-skinned girl wanted was to be chewed out for a simple -- albeit, dangerous -- mistake.

"A-agreed," she said in a passive reply to her partner. Indeed, that little mess-up never happened. No siree. Out of sight and out of mind and all of that mumbo jumbo. "T-try again and keep a g-good hold on it this... time," Shakuntala told the girl without the need to emphasize anything. "Your... Y-your form is good, but..." Need she say more, after what happened a few minutes ago? "You can... do it..."

Bluedemonwolf

[Blades]

"I would imagine they are very sharp.." Alec eyed the end of the blade in his left hand lifting it up and inspecting the gleam of the blade for a moment in silent wonder really. Was this truly enough to cut down a titan? He felt doubtful, but having seen how easily they cut into skin gave him some measure of hope for his nervous energy. "They'd have to be to do the job yea?" He nodded then reassuringly. Surely they wouldn't make them learn with an ineffective tool, it made no sense. "Oh. So do face wounds bleeding wise." He commented absent minded-like.

Shrugging slightly, his arm tired from the work out, noting his right arm needed a bit of work, swinging the blade on that side was awkward compared to his left, but he managed at least. After a bit more of their mimicking and training poses and strikes of various, he went to put the blades away as instructed once they were done practicing. This had gone on until he was fairly certain his arms were going to fall off, but made no motion to complain.

Alec looked thoughtful gazing over to Gazelle's work station. At least she didn't have the harsh, glaring gaze of Santos. Although while extreme, the red head knew he meant well..no matter how terrifying. "Hm..I think were ready to move on for now? How's the finger?" There was a first aid kit nearby, otherwise the pair would move onto the next portion of their test.

[Maintenance]

A very mild shift was contorted on his features to apologetically glance to his partners on either side of him for the noise made. Continuing to wind the wiring with great care, some of it slipping from his grasp, he would glance to see what the other two of his comrades were up to and their progress.

The Garrison....

All at once, Mykanos stopped what he was doing, freezing in place, his eyes unblinking even. Slowly, his lids lowered heavily, veiling those beautiful orbs of his, a hand lifting to gingerly touch the rose brooch dawned at the black ribbon hugging his neck.

He wanted to say something... but it didn't feel right. It wasn't his place to. But still, he held concern. He couldn't help but to. The sound of the wire whipping about pulled him from the encroaching darkness, "I think we'll all get more brighter with all of this training." he chose to respond with. After all, at the end of this, they wouldn't be the same as when they started.

[Blades -> Maintenance]

Alec nodded his head at her comment about the finger being uncomfortable. "Try not to put that in your mouth, here let me help you." He set his blades down, fetching out materials to clean the cut, and properly give it a quick bandage, satisfied she wouldn't bleed all over the gear for now anyway. "There..good as new." He chuckled grinning at the younger female. Once this was done, he smiled at her amiable like, leading her to the bench, setting his blades down and grabbing a cleaning cloth so they could be wiped down before being replaced..not there was much on them so the task was relevantly simple. Applying oil to the blades, he took his time, before returning them to the home in their cartilages.

"Do you know what branch youre thinking of trying for yet Lenore?" Alec asked of his companion curiously after a few moments of silence.

Reaching for the large box he'd put his blades away in, giving it a long considering look before cracking into the case, his blue eyes wide with fascination as he inspected the inner workings of the mechanical contraption. The wires, reels, and system while complex fascinated the teen. It had been his dream his entire childhood, and adult life after all to work with such equipment. While he didn't know that much about them. he'd promised himself he'd learn everything there was to know. So it was any wonder as he was poking around a spring came off and nearly hit him in the face, causing him to cringe tempted to cover his eyes with his goggles but refrained from messing with them for now.

(( Thats fine :3 I didn't want to control her actions and drag her over for the finger wrapping without the offer lol. This reply is the 3rd draft i kept accidentally closing my browser like a failure. ))

[Maintenance]

Lenore winced as Alec cleaned the cut, but aside from that, remained passive through the entire ordeal. After the bandage was applied, Lenore stared at it as if it was an alien creature before heading over to the bench. Mimicking Alec, she cleaned her blades before oiling them and returning them to their box-scabbard-things. She didn't think she'd ever been told what that portion of the omnidirectional maneuver gear was called, come to think of it.

Lenore shrugged at Alec's inquiry. "Haven't thought about it." She paused. "What about you?

The girl's eyes widened slightly as a spring shot towards the older boy's face, but it was only temporary, as she quickly went back to her usual blank expression. Opening her own box-scabbard-thing, she looked into it, but refrained from touching anything for the time being.