Power and Purpose

*Fern* · 04-19-2022, 05:04 PM

Fern is happy to be called for a lesson and when she sees Artorias putting armor on dummies, her excitement grows. They banter easily, the gray girl realizing just how much she missed her training lessons with Art. The smile never leaves her face and, when he asks if she has taking good care of sword, a twinkle of pride sparkles in her eyes. After every training session, she has taken the sword back to the armor for inspection and cleaning. Once the blade has no nicks or burs she then cleans and oils everything that needs it. If the hilt is anything to go by, the sword is well loved and taken care of. She follows Artorias over to where their armor lays and Fern unbuckles her sword so she can slip on her own set. Once fastened, she takes a moment to stretch with the leather armor, the comfortable weight settling lightly across her frame.

Rebuckling her sword over the armor, Fern follows Artorias over to the padded dummies and takes a seat to listens attentively to her teacher. Eyes are bright with curiosity and excitement as he speaks and she nods along to his words. Watching as the tall Aegis steps over to the dummy and poses a puzzle to her, Fern feels her eyebrows and she quickly stands to moves the dummy. Humming to herself, she slowly walks around it, noting gaps in the armor and weak points as well as where vital organs sit. When she makes it back to her starting point, Fern looks to Art and begins her assessment, “The first place I would try strike is the head or neck.” Pale paw lifts to indicate where the carotid and jugular rest, saying, “These points are fast, clean kill spots. Same goes for the forehead. If they wear a helmet and neck protection, then I look to go the spot right here.” She points to the area where the jawline meets the throat, saying, “Again, fast, quick.”

Stepping up to the dummies side, Fern indicates a spot where the padding does not overlap, leaving a small opening. She says, “If I am going for the body, I would look to these areas. When the wolf moves, these spots may become wider and allow me to stab at the lungs and heart that lay underneath.” Looking to Artorias, she wonders if he knows that her mother was a healer and, while Meadow had used the knowledge of anatomy to help others, Fern is now using that same information to think of ways to inflict death. Would she be ashamed of what her daughter has become? Mentally shaking the thought from her head, she turns back to the dummy to point at the legs as she continues, “The joints of the legs will not be protected to allow for easier movements. With or without armor, if the enemy proves elusive, I would strike at the tendons here,” paw pokes the area above where the pad would be on the dummy before moving up to poke at the outside of the elbow joint as she adds, “or here to hobble my opponent.”

Moving to the back of the dummy, Fern says, “The tail is good target too. It is vascular and would cause the wolf to lose a lot blood.” With that, she moves back around, coming to sit in front of Art and silently asking for his evaluation of her thoughts before they move on to the next part of the lesson.

"Fern Lark"

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