Behind Enemy Lines (Day Three)

[Akirapryde]

Trysta snickered a bit, "your accent and arrogance could fool someone in to thinking you are a Corer." But it was his last question that caused her to appear confused. "I just told you, Do Not Cut?" she genuinely appeared confused. "I don't understand what you mean."

Then it dawned on her, "Oh!" her snicker turned to full blown laughter, "you are such a Corer" she managed to say between laughing at his statement. "Its not Do Not Cut." She tried to control her laughter, "The Dance is called NOT ONE CUT." She bend over laughing hard. After a long moment of laughing, she slowed her laughter and uttered, "Tha thu mar sin amadan," as she shook her head.

She looked up, "its a dance taught to daughters of the Taighean Àrd, or High Houses. It dates back to the earliest time of my people's existence. Those who were chosen by the Goddess to lead our people in combat." She pointed to the metal symbol on her forehead. "those like me and my sister. The dance is first taught once we can walk. Basic foot placements and so on. Then we pick up the training sticks. The idea is to practice precision attacks. Each partner wheres a dress with glass orbs on it. Within each orb is a second orb. You are only allowed to break the outer orb."

She finally stood up, "We are taught to hit places critical for life," she said pointing to places on his body. "During our training with the sticks, a band will play the music. It actually looks like a dance. Well for us. Others see it differently. Once we are ready for swords, we slow down the beat and put on the Orb Dress and learn the dance all over again with dull swords. You see, by learning to be precise, you learn to make attacks without cutting. Or the name of the dance, Not One Cut," she said with a smile. "With that leave of control, we can cut, or not cut with greater ease than the Jedi."

"By the time my sister and I turned nine, we were dancing with real swords. That was when we were both accepted in to the Jedi and my parents had this sword made for me," she said tapping her weapon.