[ this time, her words are back to being a taunt, a challenge. her aim isn't to overwhelm him on their last round, after all, so even though she intends to speed up her movements, she doesn't want to end it on the first or second strike.
she shifts herself back into position, gives him the space of another breath to prepare—
—and then she's back at him again. she's relentless as always, coming at him with moves similar to before; while she doesn't want him to adjust specifically to her, she wants him to get better practice anticipating for the sake of dodging, until the reflexes are quick, immediate muscle memory.
she spars with him in another kind of dance, this time to a different beat, a different rhythm, but still with the underlying, tonal style that's very much the way gamora just moves.
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[ this time, her words are back to being a taunt, a challenge. her aim isn't to overwhelm him on their last round, after all, so even though she intends to speed up her movements, she doesn't want to end it on the first or second strike.
she shifts herself back into position, gives him the space of another breath to prepare—
—and then she's back at him again. she's relentless as always, coming at him with moves similar to before; while she doesn't want him to adjust specifically to her, she wants him to get better practice anticipating for the sake of dodging, until the reflexes are quick, immediate muscle memory.
she spars with him in another kind of dance, this time to a different beat, a different rhythm, but still with the underlying, tonal style that's very much the way gamora just moves.
elegant, but deadly. ]