![](https://i.imgur.com/cBjz3fp.png)
Instead of jogging this time, the sculptress merely walked through the muddy hills of Baska, right outside the edge of town. The furious, incessant rainfall had eased away for the first time in a couple of days, more than enough for her to brave an outdoors training... Water dripped down from yet soaked leaves, as a few animals had the same idea as the woman... Yet she wasn't exactly foraging for food, and not merely exploring her surroundings either.
Rather, the red tracksuit covering her body and katana strapped told a different story altogether...
Alisa had to get used to her new sword, and every time she gripped the hilt she thought back to that fact... She'd only scarcely used ever since she first purchased it, just enough to get a feel for its weight, and the attacking flow it enabled her. A far eastern blade like this had its own way of wielding, the martial art called Kendo. A martial art Alisa had never trained in herself...
Like everything he'd taught her, Uncle Gottfrid never cared much for the origin of each individual move, the style those moves had been honed as a part of... He learned what he felt worked, taught it to her, and then taught her to do the same with what he had taught her.
Indeed he taught her enough swordfighting for the girl to hold her own, but while the sculptress had studied many of the originating martial arts all across her travels, she placed less of an emphasis on swordfighting. She'd absorbed a couple of techniques she could use somewhat effectively, but yet lacked the experience to pick out the useful amidst the useless. Then suddenly, her ruby eyes shifted to a lone building, oddly enough the kind of place she must have felt she needed to be at that point.
"Oh... A dojo..?", she thought loud, promptly recalling some rumours she heard around town. Apparently this mostly derelict dojo had been abadoned since its master was defeated... This wasn't really a coincidence, a sharp, but whimsical woman like Alisa often felt what and why she needed even before she aptly understood it.
Yet albeit abandoned, the interior appeared intact, never having been looted... Some said it was haunted... But the more reasonable of folks usually assumed some of the older students occasionally visited the abandoned building to use as a training ground. Although she wouldn't really have time to look around. When she started feeling small, lone droplets falling on the few bits of exposed skin her outfit left, she hastened her pace, knowing shelter couldn't have come at a better time...
Training Novice Mastery words: 450
Last edited by Alisa Vollan on Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:18 am; edited 1 time in total