[Training] [se] we light the way

Melita

Eating fire is your ambition
to swallow the flame down

Unaware of what the man had done in his life – though, if one hazard to guess, he likely learned how to survive hardships too, just in differing ways – the youth’s eyes narrowed, taking in the scope of his motions. Smart and keen, as if experience told a story, a prowess coming from multitudes of muscle memory, likely saving the Sentinel from a meaner, more influential snap of her staff.

But still, she remained wary of the serrated edges of the spear, content to amuse herself in bounding and leaping along the water until she could circle and regain some modicum of distance and rapacity. Her speed would continue to be a factor, for as long as she had it, and she rounded back towards his right side, intending to reach and smack at his ribs.

to be lit up from within, vein by vein
to be the sun