Its life, lost mine too, got a new one as well, just went to full time at my new job.

Knowing that the best way to train was to use himself as the one they attacked or defended from, due to the lengths that he trained for a few years now, he spoke to Ellisha, “Ellisha Sedai.” He said, his tone as serious as ever. “Keep in mind what I’ve taught you so far. Remember to maintain balance, recoil after each strike and most importantly of all; never to over extend yourself. We don’t want any injuries on your first day of training. Now, are you ready?”

She gave him a rueful grin and in reply, began charging straight for him. It was easy training that put him to one side, deflecting her whole charge with one hand, throwing her off balance.

“I remember telling you to keep your balance, Ellisha Sedai" Rekinu said as he leaned down over her, to offer his hand to help her stand again. “That was not a very balanced approach.”

Ellisha Sedai scrambled to her feet, protesting. “You, you… caught me off guard that time!” she stammered, fumbling awkwardly in the dirt for her dagger.

Shaking his head slowly, he retorted, with a bit of amusement, “I also remember telling you to always be on guard when facing an opponent.”

She gave him a heated stare; fiery eyes burning, anger flashing as she replied, “I won’t be next time.”

“Gery good,” he nodded, “then we shall continue.”

On and on they went, blow after blow Ellisha lashed the Warder’s way; he gave her credit for two things. She struck fast. Though not viper fast, it was fast enough she would probably do well against a normal street tough. However most threats to an Aes Sedai were likely to not be from street toughs, and so if she were to have a chance he had to make her be fast enough to hit an assassin or other highly trained individuals. And that was why he was here after all.

Rekinu could tell she was tiring and decided that the next run would be the last for the day. Interestingly, this time she changed her tactics. Instead of charging straight at him like she’d done on her previous attempts, she approached him carefully, maintaining a solid footwork and holding the knife in a protective manner. Closing the gap, she made a controlled stab straight for his centre, then again and again as he parried each blow. She was definitely trying to get him. Reki blocked each stroke, throwing her knife hand away from him, and she did not lose her balance as before. Grinning, it was time to end the session with a good way to attack fresh in her mind, he told her to end the session. But she was so focused on hitting him, she did not hear. Since she had not heard his statement to stop (as he could not demand an Aes Sedai to do anything), he used the flat of his hand and struck Ellisha’s knife wrist, with just enough pressure to force her to drop the knife. Due to the way she had been attacking at him in that instance, she bounced off his other arm that had been reaching out to steady her, and she crumpled to the ground unceremoniously.

“You’ve done well, Ellisha Sedai.” He said, his hands folding behind his back. “I think that will be enough for now.” Rekinu turned and began walking away from her.

"We are finish when I say we finish!” Came a snarl from behind him. Ellisha Sedai had gotten up, and as Rekinu turned towards her, she charged at him. Her charging at him was something he had seen many times in the practice fields and even in the performance of his duties outside of the tower. What gave him pause, what startled him was the anger directed right at him from those intense eyes of hers. He had had an Aes Sedai mat at him. Even his own, but this wasn't just anger; it was almost hate. As he struggled to reconcile how she could have so much hate at him, she threw a handful of dirt and sand in his face. Unexpected, his eyes were not able to close quickly enough to stop it. He also got a mouthful as he had been about to congratulate her when she charged at him.

He stumbled back, completely blind, and in pain from the dirt in his eyes. The first blow of many that flowed was well placed in the center of his stomach, knocking the breath out of him as well. He fell over, with a slight "oof" as the air was forcibly propelled from him. The following moments, unable to gauge what exactly was going on left him scrabbling to block blows raining hard and fast on him from every direction. She seemed to have a goal to bruise every inch of his body, and was definitely making a run for it. After the first two blows, and another one that broke his nose, he was able to assume a small piece of the Void and deflect the rest of the blows from his vital areas, while struggling to blink his eyes to see more than a vague blur through the pain. Through the whole thing he kept reminding himself if was an Aes Sedai that was hitting him. He was Light bound to serve and protect, so he would NOT lash back. He could not fathom why she was so furious, but he would not retaliate. He would NOT. It became a litany in his mind, one word with each blow.

Finally, it stopped. He waited a small moment, before clearing his eyes with his hands, wiping away the dirt and sand as best he could without water.

As his eyes cleared some, he saw Kira sanding by him, offering him a hand to help him up. He accepted gingerly, checking the hand he grasped her for blood, he did not want her to get dirty with it. She spoke to him, with sadness in her eyes, dispite the serenity painted there, he could still see it. "I can only offer my sincerest apologies for this Gaidin. I can tell you healing isn't among my strengths, but I can do a little of you wish."

Staring at her, still trying to figure out what he had done, he shook his head to clear it, before stopping with a wince and nodded his agreement.

She turned to Ellisha. "Can I trust you to keep control?"

Before Elisha could reply, Rekinu decided to speak up. His voice was steady, and for that he was grateful. "Elisha, I commend you for the unexpected moves, though remember to not," he paused as he picked up the knife, wincing a little, before continuing; "to not drop your knife. It should stay on you at all times. Setting it aside carelessly is bound to get you into a situation where it is needed to defend yourself, and you will not have it."

He hesitated another moment, before kneeling. "Elisha Sedai, what have I done to shame you so? If I have sullied my honor, just say the word and I will do penance."

Rekinu Alasayaar,

Thoroughly confused.

Rekinu listened to her reasons for the chosen weapons, nodding as she listed them. Knife throwing was not too common, but it certainly was a good choice if you had fast wrists. And sure hands. Regular knives, like what both Aes Sedai were training was more of a resort. Unless you dedicated yourself to training in weapons 100%, you were going to be using them defensively. However you could conceal them in almost any location making the idea of you having them preposterous if you were Aes Sedai. The sword was a big bigger of a training part. Rekinu remembered well the first years of training. The constant aches and the almost constant pain from the jarring of the training lathes hitting each other.

After she finished telling him what she had chosen, he told her "good, then since both of you are working on knives, we will focus on those for now. He motioned her to a table to he side with blunt training knives of wood were placed. There were only two more, different lengths, and he wordlessly motioned her to pick one. "Tomorrow you can pick one more like the real ones you plan on using at the training weaponry. For now pick one of these." Turning he returned to the middle of the training area as he had done earlier this morning and closed his eyes, breathing deeply, big calming breaths, becoming one with himself, readying himself for training. He was serious about these training activities, their lives could depend on how well he taught them. When he heard her approach he opened his eyes. "As I did yesterday, so will I do today. First, hold the knife. Holding it wrong could spell disaster for the whole engagement. We will then spend time taking turns grappling and attacking each other, as well as defending. I will attack you Sedai Ellisha first, and then you me, before Kira will join us.

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(Ooc, practice as you wish)

Rekinu

about to develop a headache

While getting ready that morning for his continuation of practice with Kira, Rekinu was surprised at the interruption of his morning routine with a visit from the Master of Trainees.  "Rekinu, i have another student for you to work with starting today.  Another Blue, and she has had... a hard time... with the other trainer I had her with yesterday.  You are calm, and so I assign you to work with her."  No small talk, just the assignment and he was gone.  Wondering what the Aes Sedai had done to anger the other trainer that she had had, Rekinu shrugged.  He was used to there being some Aes Sedai who believed that they were above and beyond much better at anything than anyone else.  His Sedai, Taia, was not like that, but he counted himself lucky to have such a caring Aes Sedai in that respect.  She treated him like a person, albeit one that knew much less than her (which was true most of the time) but she still valued his opinions and thoughts on situations, and let him made his own decisions when they were not together.  Deciding not to worry about it, nothing he did would likely change the request, nor did he even know if the Aes Sedai in question was one of the prickly ones or not.  Kira was a good student to work with, she had obviously thought of learning to fight without the One Power before, and although many things she knew were erroneous, it showed her willingness to learn, which made for a fine pupal.

After arriving at their set apart location, Rekinu started his warm up procedures.  It wasn't too long before Kira showed up and started limbering up as they had discussed and learned the first time.  Good working out could avoid pulled muscles and soreness.  Not that a sister was likely to leave themselves that way, requesting healing from a different sister would wash that away in a heartbeat, but the warders were not allowed such luxury as those kind of mistakes were best made (and LEARNED WELL) while IN the Tower Grounds training than in the field where your life, or worse, the lives of others, depended upon your actions.

Once he saw her nod to him her readiness for the training, he took out the knife and started showing her, as a review, the actions that they would be going through, the ones they had practiced the day before.  Seeing that she appeared to be ready, they started, with him attacking her again, but a bit faster than before.  Having done this multiple times, he knew where to stop the practice knife before it touched her skin, so that she was not struck, as she worked on getting her response times faster.

After working at it for a half hour or so, they were interrupted.  “Gaidin Rekinu,” the Master of Trainees called, “You have a new student.”

Turning, he saw the Master of Trainees and another woman, presumedly the other Aes Sedai Blue, though she was NOT wearing blue today. approaching the middle of the practice area. 

“Gaidin,” she said curtly, with a barely imperceptible nod of her head.

“Rekinu,” the Master of Trainees continued, “This is Ellisha Sedai. Ellisha Sedai, this is Gaidin Rekinu. He’ll be instructing you on the use o–”

“Yes thank you master,” she interrupted the man before he could continue, “I can work the rest out myself.” The Master of Trainees bowed, looking at Rekinu for a mere moment before turning to walk back to the main courtyard.  Hmm... thought Rekinu, I believe he owes me.  Sighing inwardly, this looked like one of the 'other' kinds of Aes Sedai.he thought to himself before turning back to the Ellisha who had already started talking in a haughty sort of way.

Kira, he noticed, had picked up the stave, assuming, correctly, that they were going to work on that next.  “So…” Ellisha cooed, pacing slowly towards the centre of the clearing and the awkward silence that prevailed, “shall we get started then? I’m a bit impatient, if you haven’t worked that out yet.  Oh.” She paused, looking toward to the other Aes Sedai. “I’m sorry, you two must have been in the middle of something. I apologise, do continue, I’ll watch from here if that’s alright with you.” The other Blue gave her a look and Ellisha saw she gripped a quarterstaff with both her hands. “Gardening really isn’t my thing after-all,” she added, with a touch of sarcasm.

Taking a deep breath, Rekinu thought of the Oneness taught to all Warder Trainees to be able to rid him self of any extra emotions before speaking.

"Ellisha sedai, that" he pointed to the tower while speaking "Is your domain.  This" he spread his hand to include the area they were in.  "Is mine.  When I am there, then I will do as I am told, barring any thing going against any order my Aes Sedai has given me.  Here, if you wish to learn, I will teach.  But we ALWAYS start with the basics before going on to more advanced.  Now, since Kira has already done her stretches, you will need to do yours.  If needed I will show you what to do, but any limbering exercise will do.  While you are doing that, I will work with Kira on the beginning of the STAVE training, which is one of my personal favorites."

Not looking back to her face, and cursing the Master of Trainees in his mind, he turned back to Kira and said "Are you ready?  First we will observe handling.  No, not like you are.. gardening with the staff, more like a walking stick you might see someone hiking hold it.  Like that!  Now, holding it like that you are more prepared to be able to use the Stave as a defensive item, then, even more importantly, in an offensive manner."

Rekinu Alasayaar

Looks like training is about to be.... a blast... >.>

Rekinu Alasayar - Hael - recruit - should be in a better mood to RP at the end of the week.

Welcome, welcome!  Always glad to have another join us! :D

I Saw your reply last week, and was going to write it up on Friday, but I lost my job, so I have zero inclination to write right now, and need to be focused on finding another.  I will try to keep you updated on a weekly basis... Just so you know.

Posted, sorry forgot you were getting something up, haha!

Being in the Tower guard was equally parts exhilarating, and equal parts infuriating... Right now was one of the latter... Rekinu had not stayed at any one place other than the Tower or his home city of Shol Arbela before, but cooling your heels waiting around so you could ride back to where you came from? Rekinu sighed, it was going to be another long night.

Being in the city meant that they didnt even have enough room to practice their weapons, and were told to be on a pretty short leash.  There was little worry of getting into trouble, most of those chosen for the mission were... less likely to random acts of violence, but after three days, any mans patience would be frayed to the point of breaking.

Ed, the leader of the Tower Guard contingent, was Across the table from Rekinu, keeping notes on the activities of the Watch, and probably just as bored as Rekinu.  They had taken turns scouting the surrounding area in the off chance that something happened, and they all knew the route to the where the Aes Sedai they had accompanied to the city by heart.  It would just take a small word from Ed to send them all scrambling there, and most sat around with their weapons near at hand.

Rekinu thumed his staff, leaning back against the wall behind him, watching the door to their right.  Ed watched the window, and he watched the door, a nice combo, the only other entrance was the door behind Rekinu to his right, that Ed was also probably eying as well.  It was a poor defensive position, but Taverns or Inn common rooms rarely were built with that in mind.  Either way, the few of them would be able to hold their own at least were something to happen.

He watched Ed mark down the latest passing of the Guard, and shortly afterwards he stood up.  With the cooling of the day, he needed a breath of fresh air.  Nodding to Ed, mostly to make sure she knew he was going to walk outside a moment, he told her "Ill be back in 5.  Need some bloody air, fresher than is possible in a building."  You cant really say you are after fresh air when you are confined in a city of that size.

I can see this now!!

Rekinu Alasayaar - Hael Narizres - (Not even in the group fully yet...) Raw Recruit

I can see this now, BTW.

Hael was excited.  He was nervous being inside a Citadel, or even strong stout walls.  In Amadicia no where else was allowed to have them, to ensure that the Children were not kept from bringing the Light to every mile of their great country.

He marched with the others to where they were told they would have a bit of initialization, and sign their names as an intent to join or some such.  He was quiet.  Those he had known were already Children and as such, as friendly as they had been in helping him understand the Way of the Light, they had responsibilities to attend to.  So they had dropped him off with a couple of other recruits shortly after entering the Fortress, and had gone on their way.  Keeping to himself mostly, he observed those with them.  He was a quiet man, and rowdiness was not part of his demeanor, and it exasperated him that they were so noisy.  It made it a little harder to just observe the area around them; and as more joined them, the volume increased.

After some time, perhaps two hours, they were led double file to another room, where they were lined up and stood before a man rising from his desk and looking them over.  He looked irritated, but since he stayed quiet, Hael quickly glanced around.  He noticed that they were in an office of sorts.  It wasn't sparse, but it wasn't junked up either.  There were momentos on the walls, perhaps from campaigns or maybe even postings he had served in the past, a single book case, and the familiar golden sunburst on the floor, directly centered in front of the desk.  It was worn a bit from the many people that had walked on it in the years it had been there, but it flared brightly in all its majesty from any light to hit or glance on it.  The open window let in the sunlight, and the midday sun light was almost on it.

The man stood there, waiting behind his desk; he was waiting for something, Hael figured it was the noise he was disapproving of.  However, failing to notice it, too many continued to chat; and the volume only decreased a little bit, before the man cleared his throat loudly.  Finally quieting appropriately, those who had yet to face him, finally turned their attention to him.  He had a forked beard, and he fingered it a moment before speaking.

"I assume you are here to join the Children of the Light. Don't think you will leave today with a nice shiny sword and a clean white tabard with a sunburst. You will first start as a recruit here doing basic training. This time will important for you to decide if you belong here with us."

Almost immediately the man, or perhaps large boy in front of him started complaining.  'But i joined to become a soldier, not do chores'.  Almost immediately the man before them overrode all the complains, and his words were loud, and heavy. "This is for us to decide if we want you in our ranks as well."

The recruits around him became silent at that, and Hael nodded.  They wouldn't want to accept just anyone, and knowing how someone was took time.  They would want a way to back out if needed, though he doubted it happened often. 

Taking a book from shelf behind him, the man set it on the desk with a bang. "First, you will need to sign your name into this book. This is our recruit book, and we need to have a record that you came to join us today. If you cannot, please tell me your name and I will write it down for you. Don't be ashamed if you cannot read or write. We have several recruits that have learned how to do so. If you remain at the Fortress, you will learn. After signing, please report to the Quartermaster outside," He pointed to another office outside of his window. "He will fit you with armor and a plain white cloak. You will earn the sunburst only after your annoiting. After that, please report to the pavilion outside. There we will begin your orientation to the Children of the Light."

He took out a pen and handed it the nearest recruit to sign it.  Some of the men held back, some crowded forward, but Hael just got in line and waited patiently.  When it was his turn, he took the pen, and held it still a small moment.  Once he signed it, he was committed, and he would not turn from this path.  Committing to himself, he signed his name with a floursh, and light-heartedly walked out of the building to the mentioned Quartermaster.  He was ready for his new life.

The next thirty minutes were a blur of getting armor and a cloak, and Hael continuously looked down at the fit.  It was nothing eye-catching, but he loved wearing the white, and thinking that soon, he would be upholding the Light, and ridding the world of the dark.  At the end of the thirty minutes, he found himself standing in the pavillion, awaiting his orientation to the Children of the Light, and he was excited!

Hael,

Newest aspirant to the Children of the Light.

Sure!  Ill be out starting tomorrow through Sunday, but ill check first thing on Monday and add my reply there! :)

And I am MORE than happy to help in any capacity he needs.  :P

Why thank you Mystica!  I am highly interested in seeing where this goes... never thought i would RP a CoTL before, haha, but i figured why not?  :P.

lol, im game!  :D

I walk in the Light, honest!

Umm, here!  (Signing up as requested.)

After stretching, Kira walked over to the table where she had placed her knife, and said, "I believe you wanted to work with the knife first, correct? Then let's get to it."  Rekinu nodded.

First he showed her how a knife should be held, at least how an Aes Sedai should hold it.  Closer to her body would give her better reactionary time, as opposed to holding it way out from your body as you see drunken men fight when one was offended by another, and decide to take things too far.

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The next step was to teach Kira how to COUNTER a knife attack, if someone lunged at her.  Side stepping was an important thing to be able to do, and being able to redirect the attacker’s knife by forcing his wrist away from you was just as important, if not more so.

After showing her the positioning for the knife again, he explained about, and then demonstrated, the most common wild attacks that could be expected.  Those were best avoided he cautioned, as the user would often sprain back and or arm muscles with the unnecessary energy they threw into their desperate swings.  Besides, if they were that desperate, they would probably run soon if they didn’t mark their target.

However, the more dangerous attacks would be combined with a lunge.  That was usually performed by someone a bit more crafty, determined, or more confident; it would also be the kind she truly needed to be able to protect herself from.  Showing how someone would lunge at her, in a slow, exaggerated motion so that she could observe how the body bunched and writhed in its movement to complete the action, he pretended to attack a dummy near where they stood.  After seeing her eyes seem to take the information, and begin to process thoughts about it, they swapped, so she could do the same.  Attacking, she would better understand what the enemy would be seeing as they attacked her.  But he had her attack him instead of the dummy.  First, he had her lunge at him slowly, so that he could show her what a good defense and a poor one looked like to the attacker, and what her counter measures would look like to them.

Once she seemed comfortable with the things Rekinu was showing her, they swapped placed, practicing with him attacking her slowly.  As she picked up, the speed increased until he was almost attacking at a normal man's speed.  She really was learning fast!

After practicing for a time, with a few breaks for water, Rekinu noticed that the sun had gotten really high, in fact it was already starting to creep downwards; as for himself, he was famished.  Having been there early that morning, it was long past time for lunch, and he suspected that Kira was a little tired too.  She seemed fit, and more than ready to be a competent in whatever skills he could give her, but a body needed rest as much as repetition to be able to hone those skills to the ability to react properly in a life or death situation.

“I think that is all today.  When we come tomorrow, we will practice with the wooden knives, and you can really defend yourself Aes Sedai Kira.”  She nodded to him, and they parted ways.

She had a strong grip on the knife, and he knew that with some more training tomorrow she should be able to handle any common street thief caught in the act, but not yet willing to give up their prize.  The Light help that it be the only thing she had to face.  He could not do much more than hope that it was the case, but Aes Sedai could be found in almost any situation, and sometimes with more dangerous people than thieves.  White Cloaks would not be deterred with a knife, in fact few fought with one.  That is what the staff would be for.  He reminded himself to start that first in the morning, before honing the knife skills attained in their training today.

lol, you busted up that guys place pretty good, want to keep it quiet for a few months still, lol.

>.> okies, some people care about those things, lol, I will remember in the future, haha.

Welcome back _kynwric_!!

Im here, AND interested... Might not need to get drunk for the same reason, but Ill have him get drunk for the heck of it... he never got into trouble before, so that would be fun! :P

He showed her the stretches most important, and they went through each one.  She seemed familiar with a few of them, but she was a quick study with the others;  that bode well for the next phase of the training.

ummm... updating the thread Kronos!!