Her Brother's Keeper: A Story of Alpha Centauri

Interlude 5

She was doing a bit better than before. While she was still tired from the earlier bout of fighting, she could slowly feel her weariness melt away like a popsicle under the blazing Mainday sun.

‘This is odd,’ she thought as she launched into an attack on her opponent. She saw the other girl’s eyes grow large at the unexpected and lengthy string of stabs. She could change the angle, speed, and direction of her thrusts with ease because the steel-bladed naginata no longer felt as if it weighed one hundred kay gees. Since she was also becoming used to the heavy armor and was starting to use footwork techniques that she hadn’t had the energy to utilize until now.

‘I don’t know why this is happening, but I like it!’ she thought as she easily sidestepped and then parried a thrust of her opponent’s katana. While sparks were flying as the blades slid along one another, she came to the realization, ‘This is starting to get fun!’

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