"I brought some healing poultices, just in case something gets strained. Or, you know. For bruises."

Anyway.

"Right. So we'll do these exercises in one quarter time, I think, at first? It's how Cullen started me out, anyway."

For a given value of start, which was mostly after a lot of running around the lake with a backpack full of rocks and endless drilling of the same five movements for muscle memory. As this is not a technique designed to save Hera's life, Ysalwen chooses to start with something more interesting.

"If you begin with a basic strike, I'll block, and then we'll switch."