[If Nethan didn't know any better, he'd have thought this was a choreographed scene from a play. Knowing it isn't, that it can't be, puts his heart in this throat. More than once he was sure someone was going to die, and more than once the only reason he didn't charge in and stop the duel was that both the Chosen and Lloyd seemed utterly unconcerned. They both watched the whole thing with no small amount of fascination and excitement.]
[He very nearly charges in anyway with that final blow. Nethan's felt the strength of Yuan's blows himself, and that was with both a normal sword and Yuan fairly obviously holding back. Trying to block a hit like that --]
[-- which Kratos manages without faltering --]
[-- Nethan cuts his movement off before it's become much more than a brisk walk. It's showing off, he realises. They're showing off. How old is Kratos? He can't be much older than Nethan himself, and being able to match Yuan regardless...]
You've got to do that more.
[This coming from Zelos, but echoing Nethan's more private thoughts in a very unnerving fashion.]
I'm serious! I never get to see Yuan having fun. I keep telling him he needs to get out more, but he never listens.
[Nethan, for his part, and with a lack of any other convenient reaction presenting itself, is just staring. So is most of the rest of the courtyard.]
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[No seriously, what in the hell.]
[If Nethan didn't know any better, he'd have thought this was a choreographed scene from a play. Knowing it isn't, that it can't be, puts his heart in this throat. More than once he was sure someone was going to die, and more than once the only reason he didn't charge in and stop the duel was that both the Chosen and Lloyd seemed utterly unconcerned. They both watched the whole thing with no small amount of fascination and excitement.]
[He very nearly charges in anyway with that final blow. Nethan's felt the strength of Yuan's blows himself, and that was with both a normal sword and Yuan fairly obviously holding back. Trying to block a hit like that --]
[-- which Kratos manages without faltering --]
[-- Nethan cuts his movement off before it's become much more than a brisk walk. It's showing off, he realises. They're showing off. How old is Kratos? He can't be much older than Nethan himself, and being able to match Yuan regardless...]
You've got to do that more.
[This coming from Zelos, but echoing Nethan's more private thoughts in a very unnerving fashion.]
I'm serious! I never get to see Yuan having fun. I keep telling him he needs to get out more, but he never listens.
[Nethan, for his part, and with a lack of any other convenient reaction presenting itself, is just staring. So is most of the rest of the courtyard.]