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When Ember started giggling at her attempts, Rebel shot her a playful glare. If she didn't have a sword in her mouth she'd probably would have stuck her tongue out in response. Luckily, Ember pulled it together and eventually gave her a real response to her question. Rebel stepped aside so Ember could come up to the dummy and she watched as the Carpathian princess made another swing at her target, but this time it was very slow and deliberate. The concept of the sword being an extension of herself and feeling the blade versus just holding it felt a little foreign to her, but she just listened and nodded occasionally to show she was playing attention in the hopes that once she put it in action it would begin to make more sense.

Once Ember stepped back again and instructed her to try again but more slowly this time, Rebel took her position in front of the dummy again and did what Ember told her to do–focused on getting used to the movement and treating the sword like it was part of her. She was reminded of the very early days of her learning how to fight and all the times her mother would make her repeat certain stances and moves over and over till they were muscle memory. It felt very much like she was going back to the beginning again in a lot of ways. At least she had Ember here to be her guide so she wasn't just shooting blindly in the dark trying to figure it out herself.

She carefully guided the blade toward the dummy's head, getting used to the weight of the sword more and more the longer she held it. Remembering how her parents used to train with her, she paid close attention to how her body moved with the sword, memorizing how certain muscles moved and how far her head had to turn to get it where she wanted to go so that she could replicate it again and again. Somehow she did start to figure out what Ember was talking about with all of this talk about how the weapon moved with her and how it was a part of her. She was able to think less about how it felt in her mouth and focus more on where the blade was in relation to the rest of her body. She made a couple more swings at the dummy's head, still keeping her movements slower and not trying to really put any power behind the attacks. Her movements were still a bit awkward as she experimented with a couple different ways of doing it and figuring out what felt best, but each time it got a little bit better.

"Rebel Klein"