How do you do, fellow kid?

Ezra gave a guilty grin and his ears flicked when he was called out on the fact that guarding the alpacas sounded like a punishment - which was exactly right, of course. He was kind of glad when Artorias decided to not pursue the question of why he was in trouble so he wouldn't have to go through explaining the whole trouble between himself and his father. He would have been honest with the other boy if Art had really wanted to know, but it was just easier to not have to go through all of that. It was a lot of dirty laundry to go through just to explain his punishment and as upset as he had been with his dad as of late, he didn't really want to go around telling everyone everything that had happened. It was one thing to tell Resin all that stuff, but he didn't feel as confident about telling Artorias.

Ezra smiled with a flash of pointed teeth when Artorias agreed that they could train now, mentioning how they'd have to do it inside because of the snow. "Works for me!" he agreed easily. It didn't really make a difference to him as long as he was holding true to his end of the bargain he made with Resin. He followed along beside the Carpathius boy as they moved deeper into the castle until they finally ended up in front of some big double doors. The screech the hinges made made him flinch a little at the shrill sound, but he moved past it quickly so that he could follow Art inside, letting his pale gaze sweep around the room. There were some of the training dummies he recognized from the fighting area his father had put together and a circle sketched out around the middle of the room, along with a bunch of wooden splinters that he didn't really understand until he looked back at Artorias and saw the wooden sword he was carrying again. Oh. Right.

Aquila took off from Ezra's shoulder to go roost in the rafters with Corbin when he saw the raven do so, landing beside him with a tip of his head and a bit of chatter as if to say "Truce?" After all, if Corbin's wolf was going to be helping his wolf they were going to be seeing a lot more of each other. Meanwhile, Ezra focused in on Artorias when he turned to face him, returning his grin. He nodded to confirm the statement of having already learned the basics. "I'm... not exactly sure where I'd want to start," he admitted. "I know basic defenses and attacks, but not a lot else." He tried to think back to the melee spar he did with Artorias and Tika and went looking for things that he had noticed Artorias do that he hadn't seen before. It was admittedly quite a few things, he just had to figure out what he wanted to learn. "You were really good with the counter attacks and blocks in our spar with Tika," he mentioned after a moment. "I don't know if there's anything I could learn from that since I don't have a sword or anything, but maybe something like that?"

"Ezra"