Nidjj stands before a wooden post affixed to the floor of the arena.

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Several swings of his dagger effect the result of successful strikes of equal number and a removed portion of the post.

Linwee sat on a bench that lined the wall, she had her Lute sitting on her lap as she tuned it, she looked around the trainging room, she only saw a few people preticing, she saw someone who was useing a dagger, she had not seen many people fight with a dagger. She didn't know why she came to the training academy, she didn't know if people liked hearing music or not here.
She started to play her lute that she had just got done tuning, she started to play a fast tune, plucking the strings with her right hand and she was making the chords with her left hand. The noise that her lute made went through the room, making it a comforting sound.
She started to sing a little, not loud eneough for people to hear her, she could only hear herself or if someone walked over and listend, "I walk down a road, feeling like I have no friends, I feel like no one likes me, I travel for miles without anyone with me.
As I lift my foot ready to walk... I see someone looking at me, I don't know who it was, I raced over to where the person was standing, but then he dissapperd.
I walk down a road, feeling like I have no friends, I feel like no one likes me, I travel for miles without anyone with me.
I look for the person who was standing in the road... but he is gone, I can't find him, I start to walk down the road again, then I see someone ahead of me.
"I walk down a road, feeling like I have no friends, I feel like no one likes me, I travel for miles without anyone with me.
I ran over to where the person was standing... He stayed where he was waiting to take my hand, I grab it, now I have someone to travel with!
"I walk down a road, feeling like I have no friends, I feel like no one likes me, but now I do have someone with me." She letted out her last breath, she had always liked to sing that song, she wrote it by herself and with her sister.

The lyricist of this song definitely was not a poet. Nidjj's blade stops. To continue training while such intolerably ineloquent screeching persists would be to risk severe personal injury.

Adsero ran into the arena and took off her soking cloak. It had, indeed, poored down rain. She investigated her arms and saw that there were several new burns on her arms. As she looked around the room she saw that Nidjj was there practicing with that over sized dagger(short sword). She walked over to him. "What was up with that! Do you always make that good of a first impression or was I just lucky!? There wasn't even any money in that stupid pouch of yours! Feel like fighting without having to burn me in the process!?" Adsero was very angry both at herself and at Nidjj. She had shown her weakness and he had used it against her along with teunting her my leaving behind an empty money pouch.

Nidjj flips his dagger once around his hand before returning it to his sash. "Ah, it's you. Where shall we continue?" He seems to have gained much experience since their initial scuffle.

Adsero gave him an evil stare and her eyes turned red/orange. "Mabye I sould splash YOU with water! Accually, me and someone else are here. I think she might like to meet you." Adsero turned to the door.

Oris comes in and finds Adsero and her soking cloak
"See it rained on you friend." Oris looked for her weapons, but alas she forgot where she put her weapons... ^-^

Adsero smiled but then returned to a frown. "Oris, meet evil-person. Evil-person, meet Oris."

"My name is Nidjj. I like to give empty containers to thieves."

Seraphina jumped down from aplace she was sitting on the ceiling. She had a dagger drown pointing at the man, even though he seemed to be twice as big as herself, but she wasn't afraid. Her dagger was up at the mans throat, her arm was streached at it's longest for her to reach his neck, "That isn't very nice not liking thieves, I take it all the thieves you have tricked weren't very good," she grinned to herself as she stood ready to put her dagger into the mans throat.
She looked up at him, "Give me the gold you carry or I'll have to get it myself. You know this isn't theway I normally do things, but I heard you tricked fellow thieves, I keep them safe, that is the code of the thieves." She looked at the man with her eyes, she glared at him, she didn't mind her was about two feet higher then her.

Nidjj uses telekinesis to shove the current threat toward the floor. "Only one fight simultaneously! This is the code of those who are not murdering knaves." He consumes a small portion of his fire-resistant ingestible liquid. He looks toward Adsero and prepares to draw his weapon.

Adsero drew her sword, ready to finish what they had started. "Stop using large words I don't understand! AND THEIVES ARE NOT KNAVES! I don't think they are..... What did you just drink anyway? Little ale before a fight?" Adsero's eyes turned red/orange and she could feel the fire course through her veins. A light firey glow appeared around her body.

"Yes, it's ale. It might increase flammability... Perhaps you'd enjoy some."

Adsero shook her head. "I have my own. Plus I don't like to fight with fire too much. It gets angry when there is nothing good to burn. And besides, burning flesh smells bad. But if you want, I could make some fire. It might get angry but it burns brighter then anway." Adsero smiled. Her people were long time friends of the fire. The fire that even now, courses through her veins and gives her strength. "No stupid water tricks though. I have plenty of burns without you adding to it." Adsero's fire began burning brighter, possibly for the sheer fun of burning, but never burnt her skin. The truce between Ignigena and fire, no Ignigena would ever burn from fire so long as they always helped the fire to burn.

Nidjj turns the potion upside-down over his head. It saturates his clothing. He restores the bottle, still at least 85-percent full, to his soaked money bag. "Well, I'm ready."

Adsero stared at him. "Your crazy." A medium bud of flame appeared beside Adsero.

"What!? If your going to use me then at least have something better for me to burn when you do. This human wont even burn in the first place you idiot! He's got fire protection driping from his clothes. Use common sense."

Adsero smiled. "This is Cremo, my fire spirit. Don't mind if it cuses or anything."

"Hello then, Creamy. You claim that I have fire protection. Then, if I flick some of this ale toward Adsero..." He waves his right hand, sending droplets toward the thief's face.

Duck you half wit! And block me. I don't feel like getting put out about 10 seconds after I'm lit. AND THE NAME IS CREMO! NOT CREAMY!

Adsero ducked away from the liquid and stood between Cremo and Nidjj. "I don't feel like seeing which one of you is telling the truth right now, so lets go ahead and fight!"

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHICH ONE OF US IS RIGHT?! I AM!

As Nidjj draws his dagger, it rubs against his potion-saturated sash. "Ready?" I'm not. I'll have to watch her movements closely.

Adsero rolled her shoulder(like those weird exercises you have to do in gym) and cracked her knuckles. "Yeah, I'm ready." She decided to fight with Shadow since she had had little oportunity to fight with it, and droped Chalybs on the ground away from them.

Your going to lose.

"Who, me or him?"

Perhaps he refers to me. He is correct. Nidjj waits for Adsero to strike.

Adsero just decided to ignore Cremo and lunged at Nidjj.

Oh, sure, ignore the talking fire. I don't mind. Not like I have anything important to say. Go on, kill each other, what do I care? Mabye if you die I'll be paired with someone with brains!

Oh. I'd better react to this. Nidjj dodges Adsero's stab, using his dagger to push away her sword and ensure her miss. He falls to the floor. I'll have to think faster.

Cremo semed to be wanting both sides to win.Go on, chop 'is head off! Come on, stab her in the heart! Get him while he's down! Get up fool, before she kills you!

"Whos side are you on?" Adsero didn't want to kill him so she stabed him, missing any vital organs. She stood back a little and hoped he would get up. "I don't want to kill you." A memory of the guard that had raised her in a dead heep of blood appeared before her eyes. She blinked hard but the image remained. I won't kill

Nidjj rolls across the floor and stands. As he spins to touch Adsero's skin using the potion on his left hand, her blade lacerates his shoulder. I'm still not thinking fast enough. What's this? She again attempts to distract me by conversation. "I do not want to kill you, either. I believe that you originated this conflict." He tries to grab one of Adsero's hands.

Adsero touched the place the potion had burned her and pulled away form Nidjj. "I didn't decide to get sprayed with water. you did that on your own." Adsero backed further away, one hand on her arm, the other holding her sword. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO!?

"I would prefer to discontinue this fight now. Are you willing to do that?"

"Depends, is this a trap? I don't like traps." Adsero didn't knoe if he was the type to pull traps but it was better to be prepaired then dead.

"A trap...? How ironic is the situation that a thief suspects me of deceiving her!" Nidjj sheaths his dagger. "I shall pay for a room at the Green Gryphon in Kellen for five nights' resting there. You may remain there while I recover somewhere more remote. Do you accept?"

(Is there going to be a new topic in kellen or something?)

Adsero thought for a second then called Cremo over. He shrunk to the size of an orange and she scooped him into the palm of her hand. She whispered something to him and he rolled toward Nidjj. After a second or so of rolling around him, it returned.

No.

"Very well then, I ecept your offer." Slightly releived to not get burned by any more of the fire protction potion, she blinked and her eyes returned to brown. Cremo disappeared.

"Then be in Kellen before dawn. I should expect your room to be ready." Nidjj pauses pensively. "Be careful. I have heard reports of arson in the area." He exits the building. (New Topic in Green Gryphon)