[ the challenge was just as calculated as the rest of the way gamora operates, because she knows quill, and she knows how to provoke him into action. ]
Try to keep up.
[ she knows that he can't truly keep up, but if he can maintain the level that she holds with him, he'll be doing well. he's bound to make mistakes, obviously, and she's absolutely going to keep knocking him down when he does, but it's a matter of practice, of refining his skills even further.
who knows, maybe she'll start teaching him more than this simple way to exercise his reflexes — if he wants to learn.
she doesn't give him any warning before she's moving in again, and then she's on the offensive. she's not trying to overwhelm him, but she's also not willing to give him proper time to counter with blow after blow, strike after strike. she alternates between crowding into his space and pulling back again, and it becomes something of— a dance.
rhythmic, to let him practice, to let him learn how to sense where she's coming from, to dodge accordingly. weaving back and forth, in and out, with something that could almost be called a beat—
no subject
Try to keep up.
[ she knows that he can't truly keep up, but if he can maintain the level that she holds with him, he'll be doing well. he's bound to make mistakes, obviously, and she's absolutely going to keep knocking him down when he does, but it's a matter of practice, of refining his skills even further.
who knows, maybe she'll start teaching him more than this simple way to exercise his reflexes — if he wants to learn.
she doesn't give him any warning before she's moving in again, and then she's on the offensive. she's not trying to overwhelm him, but she's also not willing to give him proper time to counter with blow after blow, strike after strike. she alternates between crowding into his space and pulling back again, and it becomes something of— a dance.
rhythmic, to let him practice, to let him learn how to sense where she's coming from, to dodge accordingly. weaving back and forth, in and out, with something that could almost be called a beat—
—if gamora was a dancer. ]