[FIN] Peak Form (Vidette & Sedare)

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The white and pink lioness moved slowly through the combat routine, moving each limb as precisely as she could manage. Then, once she completed it, she ran through it again, this time at full speed.

Sedare exulted in the fact that she was able to do this, not simply without error, but at all. Breaker her leg as a child had been a stupid, idiotic move and while her mother had found ways to train her despite it, the leg had healed in time and now it was nearly impossible to know that it had ever been broken.

That was one thing about her mother. The pink lioness refused to let anything, including an injury, stand between her and a fight. Sedare was determined to be the same.  

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Sedare glanced over. She hadn't realized she had an audience. Vidette was as strong as many males when she executed her own attacks, but often missed her target entirely. Whereas Sedare was more concerned, as her sister had observed, with performing correctly.

"You could do it too, if you wanted," she pointed out nonchalantly. Her initial instinct had been to say that Mother could do it better, but that...might not be true anymore. In the past year, Sedare had noticed that the Master Warrior had begun to move even more deliberately and that she no longer demonstrated motions as readily as she once had.

Sedare was desperately afraid that her mother had the disease.  

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It was an argument they'd had before, power versus precision. And Sedare knew there was no changing Vidette's mind. But she'd had to say it anyway.

The young lioness had to give her sister a sharp grin about watching others train. Of course, she'd hated watching her siblings train with all their limbs intact while she was still recovering. But more importantly...

"I suppose, but we could always practice against each other," she offered. It was a fairly standard way for two of Mittere's kids to spend any amount of time with each other. Sedare wasn't winded from her workout, but she felt she'd practiced enough today that she wouldn't lose out too much if Vidette chose not to bout.  

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Blue eyes sparkled. She hadn't actually expected Vidette to take her up on the offer...but this was wonderful! Perfect even! The problem with doing routines and exercises was that while it reinforced how to do the moves and how they should feel, you couldn't simply rely on that in a fight against an actual opponent, who would have their own pattern of movements.

Ignoring, of course, the fact that Sedare had faced off against all of her siblings, including this particular sister, many times before.

The white and pink lioness began circling to her left, eyes on her sister as she smiled.

"There is always that," she agreed. "Who knows...you might actually learn something!"  

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Sedare moved easily out of Vidette's line of attack, even though it was a feint. Part of the trick, in this setting, was to keep moving, and to never let her opponent control her movements.

"It may not be easy, but we both know accuracy trumps power any day," the lioness taunted her sister. It was a loving taunt, but a taunt nonetheless. She herself swept a paw against the dusty ground, flicking up a pebble towards Vidette.

If it hit, and she wasn't trying to aim this time, it wouldn't do much damage. If it didn't, it would be about as distracting as her sister's feint.

She had to do something different every time, or else she'd become predictable. And Goddess help anyone Mother found being predictable. Sedare mentally winced as she imagined the punishment.

Ah well, there was a fight before her, and this was no time to be distracted. The white and pink lioness gave her full attention to her sister for the time being, resolving to return to her other thoughts...later.