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Yariel did not return a verbal response. Instead, he twirls his weapon around, setting it in front of himself, his right foot sliding forward to sit more on his left bending leg. Holding the polearm by both hands, the right near his body while the left hand was down the rod itself, pointing toward the blade, he froze in stance.

A second later, he rushes his opponent, his upper body never changing, while his legs were moving from him running at Tiem. He was aiming to perform the simple impale manuever, a stab for Tiem's gut from three feet away. With the length of his halberd, it should be no problem to slow his movement here and bring forward the weapon.

There was a reason why he slowed at three feet away. He wasn't intending for a fierce stab, just a quick one, for about just a foot or a little less would be coming at Tiem from this distance, primarily mostly the blade and its tip. He was hoping to knab Tiem in the gut, but it looked like he avoided it.

But then he had nothing to worry about when that wooden sword swings down. An assumption would be made that the wooden sword wasn't exceeding three feet, or equaling, so at that moment of time, the sword would only swing at air, and Tiem was to the right. Yariel's left foot would step so he could shift in direction in more of a way to keep a direct facing to Tiem, since he was still slowing down to a stop, but this left hand pushes to the right also.

Why? Because it was redirecting his lance that missed to his right as it follows in that shift, aimed right for the back of Tiem, since it was what faced the weapon as the wooden sword had swung. Yariel did not have to do anything but swing his lance to the right, so the blade can swing to catch Tiem across his lower right back. He was aiming to cleave a good scar through, so by the time his blade left past the body, a deep bloody cut would left. If timing was important, Yariel did not have to worry about any second from his counter. Just a push of his left hand with the motion of his body was all it took.

((Making the appropriate post in regards to not knowing the length of the wooden sword earlier.))

Since the wooden sword was that long, Yariel reactively would do something instead of stand there. Even though he was stabbing, Tiem still was making that dodge, so firstly Yariel's momentum would slow with his running speed, allowing for a good amount of recovery time. That meant that when the wooden sword was bashing down, Yariel's step to the left was timed enough with the reflex to try to have the blade follow after, resulting in the wooden sword missing as Yariel's right side turns with his staff, the weapon missing the shoulder by an inch or so. Because regardless of the little time Tiem had to bring his weapon down from his shoulder, it still was seen, and fortunately the conditions were met enough for the half elf to avoid it while performing a counter.

Though Tiem stepped forward, Yariel did not step toward him. His step was more away, because even he knew that if he wanted to use his lance to deliver fatal blows with the blade, he was going to have to keep some distance between them until it was time to move into closer quarters. So that three feet may take some closure, but Yariel just had to strafe to his left around Tiem's location, while adding some more feet with steps back, and about two feet would be gained instead of lost, losing that proximity Tiem had wanted. This in turned would have Yariel pull back his weapon from the short stab, re-instating its position close to his body, but the tip still pointing forward, just not directly since it would also be angled upwards with his left hand raising a bit in altitude.

Now that grab for Yariel's clothing wasn't going to happen, but something else was about to. Yariel slides his left foot forward, brings his right foot in following to only place four foot between them in this time of movement, and stabs forward again, his stance similar to the one he posed at the start of the match before he began his charge. In relative to the strafe he did, Yariel should be a little direct to the right of Tiem, so his stab was going to go for the right abdominal. Since about a foot would be closed by his feet sliding alone, that left four feet left. But since about a foot of the lance would be within the right hand of Yariel's, then that left three feet and eight inches that went forward to cross the four feet distance. But if Tiem continued to follow him, the retreat like movement Yariel pulls off can leave Tiem with no room to dodge since his movement would be toward the elf, who would in turn already be counter attacking.

The length of Yariel's arms were slightly longer since he was half elf. The normal human had the tips of his finger coming to mid thigh. But this half elf's fingers came to his knees. That meant that if he extended both arms out to his sides, the wingspan would be greater than the height of the body. So as a result, Yariel will have five inches of the blade stabbed toward this area of Tiem's body. The reason why he would not extend it further was only because he wasn't going to extend his arms like Tiem did just now in trying to strike his collarbone. With the advantage of his arms keeping bent, he didn't have to waste much or anytime in performing other manuevers from this stab, and could still keep some good power in it. But when it struck, he was aiming to pull it back, even if it missed, to show he was not trying to stab and just thrust it even further. He was attempting to just create a good wound that would be fatal enough to cause his opponent to start bleeding, if it hit of course.

Yariel knew all about the ring. Ever since he arrived, he had examined the size of the room, calculating how his movements were going to be, and how much space he had to work with. It was one of the reasons why he never performed a back direction without a direction to the right or left, so that he could lower the chances of even coming toward a wall. This was a tactic any fighter should know before they take any combat.

Returning to the fight, his opponent was intending on closing in, so that would not be overlooked. So since this was evident, Yariel would not perform that second stab. Instead, he will pull back to the spear while redirecting the head of it upwards to move it close to his body, twirling it just for a few degrees to the right, still kept in front of him, though his left side angling toward Tiem, so that his right hand was now close to the top and his left lower, changing the positions of his hands.

And since he was in this position, Yariel pushes with his left hand, the non-bladed end near the ground moving in an arc to strike for Tiem's right shin. No matter how disadvantage one thought of an opponent's weapon, it was a adisadvantage in itself to rule out all possibilities of that weapon being used in other advantageous ways, and this one. Since Yariel still was moving backwards and strafing, along with his left side being angled forward, he had the advantage of momentum, because with Tiem having to reach out his hand to grab for Yariel, he left his right side open from, yes, the right side, so his right shin was about to take a good hit. Now, he couldn't exactly sweep his opponent off his feet, but this should be one to many marks he was going to inflict on Tiem's body. Another one of the plans Yariel had cooked up before this whole thing began.

The grab was only dependent upon if it suceeded at first, for the grab had went on the assumption that Yariel was allowing him to thrust out his arm and just standing there. Even then was his still moving, so his left side being the main focus would have caused the grab to miss either way while he performs the bash of his lance into the shin. So if Tiem was attempting for a spear, then he was instead was falling forward, the worst position to be in when someone was hovering over him with a lethal weapon.

But he would not try to go for a lethal shot. Instead, he steps his left foot over to the left side of Tiem from behind, actually sitting on his back, or lower back for if he was catching himself, and brings the spear from overhead to go past Tiem's face and then pulls against it, resulting in the brutal move known as a choke, using the very polearm. Tiem's own trachea was in danger of losing air as Yariel would keep the grip, keeping pinned against Tiem's back. And with that stick called a sword no longer in Tiem's hand, Yariel had little to worry about. His left hand was close to the neck of Tiem while his right was up the staff near the blade, to allow him to keep his left side mostly against Tiem. This way, the leverage of the right side of the polearm would allow for even more power in the choke.

In response to that defence, Yariel was not opened in the least bit. Tiem was not close enough to have grabbed for it because despite his willingness to get close, Yariel still had the headstart in the first place to keep the distance from closing considerably to clinch range. There was a defence because to whack at Tiem's shin did not ever require him to remove the head of the staff from his body. It was crossed diagonally, as if he was holding a broom to sweep the floor, to show a reference to how he was holding it.

However, the grab Tiem had wanted wouldn't make it because of Yariel avoiding it. So, now he does the choke manuever.