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Aysel frowned as she watched Grave, Mat, and especially Ube. Keeping her arm firmly linked around Anti's, she sped a bit and gave Ubel a one-armed hug with her non-occupied arm. She blinked as Orry's called to them, subconciously moving so that her side practically touched Antigone's. This class was surprisingly intimidating, and she hadn't even been in, yet. Oh, dear...

Grave smiled when Mathiaz reached forward to take his hand and then Ubel's. Yes, give him a chance... Grave thought. At Mathiaz words, however he started and glanced about. Many of the students were already within the classroom. "Oh! We'll never get good seats at this point!" He wailed. And practically dragging his friends through the door, Grave barrelled into the gym.
Inside the room was clean and spacious, with reed-woven mats on the floor and clean wood pannelling on the walls. along one side of the room was a wall of floor-length mirrors so that the students could see their reflections mirrored in the glass. On the opposite wall was a row of training staffs and other wooden replicas of weapons. Professor Orrys was speaking. "--further training supplies, like punching bags and more variety of training courses and weapons are to be found in the Arena. Now, even though these weapons are wooden, they still got weight to 'em and they still hurt to be hit with, so don't be trying to be all Bruce Lee on anyone by using these in combat just yet. We gotta start you off nice and easy. Today we're gonna try empty-hand sparring. I want you all to split off into pairs, alright?"
Grave swallowed. Sparring. He knew who he wanted to spar. Grave blinked and tried to pick his choice out of the crowd. He reluctantly let go of Mathiaz and Ubel's hands and stepped forward. Finally picking out his desired partner from the crowd, grave walked forward witha purpose and tapped the student on the shoulder. "aysel, I'd like to be your sparring partner."
Grave's face was calm, and there was a look of assessment and measure in his eyes.

Mat, for his part, blinked when Grave pulled away ... but once he saw who he was going after, he grinned. Y-ea, that made sense, after the paintball wars. So he turned to Ubel and tilted his head. "You and me, then?"

Torrid entered the classroom shortly after his favourite schoolmates, in time to catch the end of Orrys' talk about wooden weapons and sparring. He beamed, ecstatic; this was the sort of class he'd been waiting for.

And then Grave proposed his challenge to Aysel. Torrid's cheerful expression fell immediatly to one of worry; he'd talked at length with Grave about the paintball incident and wasn't sure he trusted he and Aysel to be civil. I'll have to keep an eye on them... he decided silently, eyeing the two. He overheard Ubel pairing off with Mathiaz as well, and closed the distance between himself and the two of them with a few quick steps.

"Hey, guys." he greeted them with a friendly smile. "Sounds like fun, eh?"

Aysel gave Grave a calculating glance, considering. Was it really wise...? But then, could her pride let her refuse? Grabbing Anti's hand, she gave it an apologetic squeeze and slepped her arm free, then face Grave with a nod. "That would be fine with me, Grave. But let us not have a repeat of the paintball game, yes? I would not particularly like to injure you, nor be injured." Glancing at herself, she gave a mental sigh. Physical action, paired with Grave? What was she getting herself into..?

Nadyrr grinned a bit beneath his sweater the smile meeting his eyes and he let out a quiet friendly laugh. Now that the majority of people were not crowded around him he felt better, "You don't scare me at all. Uhm..." he pauses a little sheepishly. Clearing his throat he makes himself continue on and push past the uneasy feeling keeping his mouth from working, "Lets just say I'm not very good with crowds either...in fact I'm rather horrible with them." His voice is a little hushed as if embarressed by the admission.

As the strange hussle of Mat, Ubel, and Grave happened Nadyrr watched the boys a moment but generally attempted to stay out of their way. He had a feeling there was a lot more there going on then he really would have a chance to understand.

As the gym came into view his uneasiness disappeared and his eyes lit up, "it is just ahead!" he glanced to those around him rather excitedly. As he neared the door and heard the teacher's voice within he glanced around. Sparring sounded like it would be lots of fun, grinned he looks over toward Kallisto, "You have a sparring partner yet? I can't wait to try it!"

Antigone was actually rather eager to see Aysel and Grave paired off. Hopefully they could move past the animosity that lay between them, and... well, not become friends, obviously. Not right away. But she wanted them to be okay with one another. Finding herself alone, she looked curiously around at the other Empyreans. The others that she knew- Grave and Ubel- were both already paired off. Well, she supposed now was good a time as any to meet new friends. She just hoped they didn't mind getting pummled in the face as a way of hello. Torrid didn't seem to have a partner yet... Flouncing up to him, she put on her sunniest smile. "Need a partner?"