War dancing

The rest of Ari's siblings came tumbling in in short order, except Ophie but she was probably off finding something stinky to roll around in. Aris sat up as straight as she could and pasted on a very serious, warrior expression to show how extremely ready she was. SO ready. It must have worked because her dad didn't wait for Ophie (though she ran up anyway) and got started. The basics. What were the basics of fighting? How basic did he want it? How do you distill the essence of battle down to its smallest components? Aris' face scrunch in a thoughtful scowl as her siblings came up with answers that weren't bad, but didn't really seem to get the whole of it for Ari, who was way overthinking things. Finally, she settled on it, and with certainty in her viice she said firmly, "Hurt the other guy and don't get hurt." That was the very basics of fighting, right? Everything else was just details.