MCA #10 - Saturday morning

[light_a_spark]

The bed Roy woke up in was rather big, but big beds were fun and he wriggled away from the girl sleeping beside him to inspect the heap of kittens lying at the foot of the bed. Dee got up to inspect him back and her whiskers tickles his cheek and nose, making Roy giggle.

"Stop that! It tickles."

((For the apartment owner.))

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[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Swords aren't pretty," she giggled. "It's dangerous. Wanna hold it?"

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"It's not ugly," he defended and he nodded. "Yes, please."

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"It's beautiful," Aly said worshipfully as she handed it to him.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Okay," he agreed, carefully taking the... toy sword from Aly. "And how do you call this?" he asked, weighing it in his hand.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Call what?" she asked, watching carefully.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I don't know!" he said sheepishly.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly grinned. "You gotta put your feet farther apart. And hold the sword up to block things. That's called ready."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Roy eyed her, then shuffled his feet apart, but it didn't exactly feel like he was ready like this. "So?"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

She kicked his right foot a little bit farther out. "Almost. Gotta hold your sword more steady."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Hey! I can't hold it steady if you do that!" he protested.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"You gotta hold it steady when someone else hits it with a sword," Aly said, rolling her eyes. "My foot shouldn't matter."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I've never done this! It matters now!"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"You're doin' okay for a beginner," she acknowledged graciously.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Roy didn't think he was doing anything, so he wasn't sure what he was doing okay. "So now what?"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

She snickered and rummaged through her closet for a stick. "Then you move it like this and there's a block."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

He copied her, a bit more clumsy. "Like this?"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Yep! Only you gotta MEAN it," Aly said approvingly.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I mean it!" he replied. He thought he did anyway.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Nuh uh," Aly said, shaking her head. "You gotta mean it cause the other guy is gonna mean it, and they're trying to kill you!"

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I'll mean it then!" He was sure he would too.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"You do it the way you practice it," Aly said, obviously repeating something she'd heard before.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"You'd get nervous and do it differently," he argued.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Nuh uh," she said, shaking her head. "That's why you gotta practice over and over and over and then when it really happens, your muscles know what to do."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

He blinked. "My muscles?"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"That's what you fight with," Aly said, snickering at him.