Word Count → 419 :: 28th. Keldava is close by her house
For the first time in quite a while Keldava had a good reason to be happy about something; Gina was going to be stopping with her! It was only for a night or two, sure, but it had been so long since Keldava had spent an extended amount of time with her sister – or woken up to a scent that wasn’t her own - that Keldava was practically bouncing off the walls in excitement.
The house was as prepared as it was ever going to get – the fireplace was well stocked, extra furs had been used to expand the sleeping area for two, some fresh kill was ready for Gina to eat, everywhere was tidy – and Keldava still had energy to burn and so had absconded outside to try and calm herself down before Gina arrived.
That was where she found herself now, standing in a fighting stance in front of a vaguely Luperci shaped log that she had set up. Her sword was held in front of her in a loose two-handed grip. For the first time in ages – since well before she actually got the sword - Keldava’s right hand was good enough to hold her sword. It was far from prefect and even now with this loose grip she could feel the muscles in her hand cramping and twitching with a mild pain; heavens forbid she tried to punch anybody with it.
Still it would serve for now. The girl had done some one-handed work with her sword in the left hand – the bastard sword was heavy when used in one hand but it was perfectly possible, that was the whole point of it after all – but she was naturally right handed so eventually when she could that was what she’d be using for one handed work. Her hand was still too weak for that but she could do some light two handed work instead. Grinning happily Keldava set to work.
Keldava must have spent over half an hour hacking away at the target, first gently and then slowly harder and harder as she got into the rhythm of it. Several times her sword was knocked from her weak hand when she hit too hard by accident but Gina’s impending visit had Keldava in a good enough mood as to forestall the outburst that would normally cause so instead she carried on, hacking and slashing, occasionally feinting backwards and parrying the sword of an invisible enemy, happily burning away her energy while she waited for Gina.
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