Battle to the death

Kite sounded grumpy, but that was okay. Hazel couldn't hold that against her, honestly. Grumpy was more than warranted in her current state, with everything that had gone on. As for Hazel being Halo's ward... that seemed like the easy way to explain things. Things were complicated, things were different, and a lot had changed within a year. Hell, so many things could change in a year, and Hazel was only a yearling herself. Something about all of the everythings... yeah. She wouldn't dwell on that. She was Halo's ward, and she had Sirius too. Shit, she should go talk to him. Another thing on her growing to-do list. That was okay.

A spar, Hazel considered for a moment. She'd already completed her work, it would have been an extra patrol for the pup's sake. "We can spar, sure. There's uh, there's a bit of a clearing just up here, less roots and shit. Come on," it would be better to start on ground that would actually cooperate for their spar. Beneath her paws there was the crunching of leaves, and Hazel hoped that there was enough noise to help Kite to track her. Maybe Halo would have some ideas on how to help her spar better when she couldn't see, at least while she was so young. Maybe Hazel would ask.

Hazel exaggerated her steps as she made her way through the crunchy leaves, hoping to create enough noise to give Kite the ability to track her. "You take first move," Hazel called. Her cadence relaxed, but engaged with the child. She could do this role model thing, maybe.

"Speech"