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Reign fidgeted as she paced the spare classroom Nara had loaned to her for this. It seemed that Nara felt she should try teaching a younger scroll child, mostly as a test to see if the woman could bribe the chimp girl into teaching permanently, or so Reign believed. Nara hadn't seemed very thrilled about Reign's choice of job, more specifically the location she worked at.

Of course, Reign knew the student she was to be teaching. But the girl didn't really see Papina as a "younger" scroll child. After all, they had practically grown up together, though she hadn't seen Papina since she'd babysat Luna. Recalling that, Reign gave a bit of a frown. That kid was just weird. Anyways, Nara said that Papina needed a class on using her bow and just how perfect would it be for Reign, the ivy girl's friend, to help her out?

Reign scowled. She was really gonna get back at Nara for this. But later. She was at least true to her word, even if that word had been begged and pleaded out of her... Thus, the chimp girl waited for her friend. No, for today, Papina was her student.

Reign stopped her pacing as she heard something, or someone, at the door. The girl smiled as she saw her pupil, giving Papina a little wave. Though she was a bit confused when the ivy girl asked if she was here for a class as well. Darn you, Nara, for not explaining things...

"Uh, kinda. Nara asked me to teach a class..." She hesitated for a moment, then continued on. "So, I guess I'm supposed to teach you something..." Nara had been rather vague. Reign thought for a moment, then spotted the bows that Papina had brought along. "Ah, yeah. You've got those things, don't ya?" Not that it was much help, seeing how Reign didn't have the slightest idea how to shoot a bow other than you pulled the string back. Plus, she didn't have any targets.

"Uh..." She thought back to when she'd helped Ala learn a bit about fighting. Hand-to-hand was definitely her specialty. "Well, you know how to shoot those pretty well, I guess... Don't you? So, maybe you should learn a melee weapon, in case you get in a situation where you wouldn't be able to use a bow?"

Reign thought for a moment. "Well, I suppose I could, but then we'd have to do this later..." She'd much rather just get this over with now. "Nara did say there were some weapons around here somewhere, but I have no idea where they'd be. I brought my daggers... but if these are similar, then I'm sure you could use mine to learn. Then if you got them, you'd just have to figure out the differences, but that's not that hard, really."

"Okay, then." Reign fetched her normal set of daggers and pulled out two. "Daggers can be held in a few different ways, depending upon your fighting style. You can hold it sideways, with the blade facing away from your body or you can point the blade towards the enemy." She demonstrated each grip as she described it. "The easiest is just pointing the blade at your enemy. Holding the blade out requires more slashing across moves, while the other one just lets you jab or slash."

With that, she held out the pair of daggers to Papina. "Try a couple of practice swings with them to get accustomed to them. Then we'll do a little sparring match. They shouldn't hurt us too much. I haven't sharpened them recently." Well, too recently. With enough force, the blades could still do some damage, but if the girls were careful they shouldn't get more than perhaps a small nick or two. Learning to fight did have some disadvantages at times.

Reign blushed a bit. "Yeah... I had to sharpen them when we went after Nara, but not since." Which meant that they were dull, just not as dull as one would prefer for learning on. While she waited for Papina to get accustomed to the weapon, Reign went and fetched the other pair from the box. She'd not equip her tail with a dagger. Too much confusion for her poor student.

((*giggles* Nara forgot to tell Reign where the practice weapons were?))

Reign could tell that Papina was nervous. Very, very nervous. "Ready?" She asked, giving the girl a bit of a warning before she slowly started to battle against the teen. A slow, fairly easy-to-block swing to start them off.

Yes, when actually faced with real pointed metal objects flying at you, it was a bit different than reading about it. But Reign kept a slow pace to let Papina get a bit more comfortable with blocking and perhaps even attacking a bit. Only when the ivy girl seemed comfortable with the pace would Reign speed it up some.

But for now, it was a few slow attacks, leaving some opportunity for Papina to attack if she wanted.

Reign kept the pace going for a while longer before moving it up just a notch. Perhaps Papina would slowly get to where she wouldn't worry and would just react. That was what fighting was about; reacting. Not thinking as much. Too much thinking confused you. Or so Reign believed.