meet again

As the three of them conversed, Natalya moved forward to close most of the distance between herself and Arwel and judge his positioning on the sandy field. Upon his agreement to spar, she backed straight away from him, setting her defenses as she moved. She bent her knees and lowered her body slightly, narrowed her eyelids to protect her useless eyes, and lowered her ears toward her head. She would not flatten them completely, as she needed to keep them open for any sounds of movement from her opponent or their inexperienced observer. Her head lowered and her tail raised, both even with her spine, and her chin tucked in to protect her throat. She stopped finally when a few yards sat between them and finished preparing herself, splaying her toes across the ground, widening her stance, and pushing her weight forward just slightly so that she would be able to move quickly without compromising her balance. Her shoulders rolled forward and her hackles raised in a final effort to protect her body, then she waited. Natalya would let a long moment pass before she made her move, a silence weighing heavily on the still air between them. Finally, she tightened the muscles of her abdomen before launching herself forward. As she ran toward Arwel, she shifted her position slightly to her left, so that she approached aiming to match up her right shoulder with his left side/right shoulder (-left from her perspective-this is his right shoulder, please see ooc notes). She would dip the front of her body just barely toward the ground at the last moment, then force it upward as she attempted to use her momentum to take the male off balance. The claws of her hind legs would dig into the ground for support as she did this. Simultaneously, her jaws would part and she would attempt to latch onto the scruff at the spot where Arwel's neck met his right shoulder. She would try to pull upward to tear the skin slightly before releasing him and tucking her chin back in to protect her throat again as she attempted to drop back onto all fours and tried to reset her wide stance before Arwel struck back. The rest of her defenses would be maintained throughout her attack. Round 1 of 2 (I agree with you!) | Spar Attacks: Charged toward him, with her right shoulder aimed at his right; dropped body slightly lower at last moment to try to thrust upward during push; and simultaneously attempted to latch onto scruff on the left side of his neck and tear the skin. Defenses: Eyelids narrow, ears flat, tail raised, head lowered, chin tucked, knees bent, widened stance, weight focused slightly toward toes, toes splayed, ears almost flat, shoulders rolled forward, claws dug into ground, hackles raised, and tightened abs. Injuries: None yet.

OOC NOTES: EDITED FOR CLARIFICATION.

Keno and Raii agreed to both fix some derpy mental errors in posts, in the interest of having a fun spar and not being like "Oh we dumb" at the end, and since our errors were the result of our stressy lives and waning brainpower.

My corrections/clarifications are in bold. Essentially when typing, I was saying left because of Nat's perspective, but should have been saying right because that's what it actually was.

See HERE our join.me discussion and excellent blob art to diagram positioning after full Round 1.

Edited again to close a bold tag, because half my post was accidentally bold xD