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]

"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.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"But my brain does the thinking!" Because duh.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah but..." she considered that for a moment. "You gotta be able to react."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I can't react with my brain?" he asked her.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Can your brain stop a sword coming at you?" Aly asked curiously.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Sort of?" he was getting confused now.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Okay!" Aly said, swinging the stick at him and expecting his brain to stop it. Not that the swing was that hard.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Roy more flinched and jumped sideways than try to block it.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly frowned. "I thought your brain was going to stop it."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I moved aside!" he pointed out.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't have if I were swinging harder," she replied.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Fine," he braced himself. "I'll stop it."

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"With your brain?" Aly asked, wanting to be clear.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he said, because he didn't quite know how else.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Okay."

And Aly swung the stick again, faster this time.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

But at least he brought the sword up to block this time too. "Ha!"

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

"Those were your muscles!" Aly said, frowning.