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So he was a graduate complaining about his age? It seemed that some humans loved to be in their early twenties when they graduated, but she might of just overlooked it. Her eyes furrowed for a moment as he spoke of what he was doing, racking her brain to remember what a janitor was. "Oh a cleaning person. But I think she is great at the art of training. She seems to have a lot of heart in it." Even with their low whispering it still seemed enough to wake up the warrior woman. And to make it even different she was on guard like she would attack them if they took any wrong step. She let Troa speak before she would try to. And again he brought up how he used to train here when he was still in school. It just made her feel like she was the only one who did not train at this entire school. Oh well, she was here to learn more about humans and herself than to fight. "And I'm Syla. We seemed to have met under different terms since the last time. Have you and Haikimaru made friends yet? Or had the fight?" She said offering a little bow of respect to the girl. Not wanting to get her hand chopped off if she extended it to do the human handshake that she just preformed with the man they were talking to.

Troa couldn't help but laugh a little. "I have to admit, that's a first." He said, laughing a little more before speaking. "I may look about one hundred, but I'm actually only twenty one." He added with a shrug. "I'm human, if I were a hundred I don't think I'd be walkin around a forrest." He added with a smirk, sighing a little when she didn't relax her stance. "I'm serious about the relaxing though. If you're too stiff, you're movements will be jerky and there's a decent risk of excess movement. That and you're gonna tire out your muscles quickly, which means... well I'm sure you could guess." He added with a shrug. "I learned that the hard way, the memory still sends a chill down my spine." He added, shrugging a little before walking over to a tree stump and sitting down. "If you're relaxed, you not only save more energy, but have quicker reflexes and more control. I can show you if you want." He added with a grin.

Troa grinned again, giving her a friendly nod. "Sure, I'll spar with ya." He said, standing again with a smirk. "I'd like to see how you kids fight these days." He added, imitating an old man's voice. "Come! I'll show you whipper snappers a thing or two of how it was back in my day." He said with the old man's voice, smirking a little. Holding out his left hand, a bright red light shone and broke into beams to form a wire frame of a spear. When the light faced, the spear Gae Dearg was held in his hand. Taking a stance, he smirked as he remained relaxed. "You're move." He said with a grin, speaking with his normal voice now.

Troa remained relaxed as she charged at him, and quickly spun the spear as her punch came in and went knocked into her forearm and directed the punch away. Sliding the spear in his hands, he took an "L" step around her left so that he could move around and behind her, and raised the spear blade to to her neck but stopped before it would make contact. Smirking a little, he let the spear shatter and vanish in his hands. "Well it's not fair if you don't have a weapon." He said with a shrug, taking a basic left stance for hand to hand combat.

"Hey! Don't stop. It fair." Maiara said is dismay as the spear disappeared. "I fight claw and tooth. You fight spear." She said to smile man as she watched Syla skirt away behind a tree, telling them to mind the plants. She wouldn't hurt anything. That girl was definitely whatever that Archer boy was, a dryad. "Do not worry." The spirit warrior said to her; in a way Maiara was connected to the world of nature just as Syla was. With a quick nod, she stepped back from the man to give herself a bit more room as she began to shift to an arctic fox.

Now standing on all fours, her yellow eyes looked back up at smile man while she adjusted to Wayra's body, stretching her furry white limbs. It felt good to feel her sense become much stronger; her awareness of the environment was so much more clear. She wouldn't attack until he had his spear again.

Maiara instinctively jumped quickly to the side as the strange sword flew towards her but it didn't even come close as it flew back to the man. How interesting... She would have to watch out for that and keep it in mind as she sparred with him. Her nose twitching, she yipped at him in response, waiting for him to make the first move this time. As a fox, none of her moves would be 'flashy'. She would fight as mother nature intended a fox to fight.

((Okay, good luck with that :3. Btw what's prana? Vital life?))[

Maiara crouched her body low to the ground, able and ready to move quickly, which came in handed as she jumped back, away from the explosion. But she didn't have time to recuperate as he conjured up some more weapons and Maiara had to keep on her toes as she rolled to the side away from the arrows, keeping close to the pillar of ice. She picked up the arrow, now lodged into the ground, in her mouth before running at the large pillar, launching herself from her strong back legs, getting high enough on the pillar to take a swipe with the arrow at his feet.

((Sure! I've never heard of it.))

As she watched the great ice pillar shatter at the man's whim, Maiara jumped to the rear, although a few shards grazed her side. The shards of ice looked like glass; she saw her own fox face as they whizzed by. She didn't allow herself to hesitate for a moment from the slight pain as she dashed forward, arrow still in mouth, at smile-man. Covering the distance quickly, she lept into the air once again passed him, aiming for the arrow to cut into his arm, but keeping mindful of the circles of ice around him.



((Thanks, it's interesting, never knew most of this stuff xP.))