[p] sleeping in the sand

Ithiel de le Poer · 04-27-2012, 03:31 PM

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(309) Using a pNPC, Col, also, because I can!

Ithiel is by Kitty!

Part of outfitting Inferni against more attacks included further training for its many members. There were a number of coyotes amongst them with no previous experience in warfare, no skills with weapons, not even a real knowledge how to fight in their natural form. This was all well and good in times of peace, but now they were at war, and Ithiel was lamenting their previous lack of preparation. They'd had many months since his own arrival and many years before that to prepare, but it hadn't occurred -- perhaps because there was no necessity to prepare.

The D'Neville was a strange place that day. Along the garden walls and on the trunks of trees large enough to support such, targets were here and there. Their shapes were varied, as of course, they had no standard method of creating such. Some were pieces of scrap leather and pelt from Myrika, too full of holes or otherwise damaged to be of any use. They were painted with different colors, the brightest in the middle signifying where they should aim.

Ithiel strode behind his two charges, back and forth. Hold the bow in the hand opposite your dominant. Set your feet apart as wide as your shoulders, and point your body toward the target, he instructed. Then turn just slightly away, keeping your dominant eye on the target. Their bows did not yet have arrows -- the stance needed to be covered first, and drawing was generally easier without an arrow nocked. Ithiel moved over to Col, and nudged his foot forward, adjusting the coyote's shoulders with both hands. He glanced toward Wraith and nodded. Good, he said, pointing at the targets. You'll want to aim for the brightest spot. Use your fingers -- the ones on the bow, not the string -- to aim, and draw the string back.

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