Well, this is getting awfully cozy, isn't it? If Koa weren't a well-trained soldier incredibly comfortable with bodily contact, he might have flushed as the once-mer King pushed a thigh between his legs.
But he's too focused on the combat to notice this intimacy, attention instead focused on the hand that's pushing on his collar, attempting to throw him off his balance and into the sand (and surf) below. It's a difficult pressure to resist, Hadama being significantly stronger than the Dragoon even when he's not malnourished and weak. Clenching his jaw and knitting his eyebrows, Koa strives to hold against it, his own body still in counter-pressure--
--until, abruptly, he steps back, staggering quickly from Hadama's grasp. It means he's wound up in the water and thus, effectively, lost, but its also calculated to try and make Hadama lose his balance, because if Koa is going to to surrender, he might as well try to bring his opponent down as well.
But he's too focused on the combat to notice this intimacy, attention instead focused on the hand that's pushing on his collar, attempting to throw him off his balance and into the sand (and surf) below. It's a difficult pressure to resist, Hadama being significantly stronger than the Dragoon even when he's not malnourished and weak. Clenching his jaw and knitting his eyebrows, Koa strives to hold against it, his own body still in counter-pressure--
--until, abruptly, he steps back, staggering quickly from Hadama's grasp. It means he's wound up in the water and thus, effectively, lost, but its also calculated to try and make Hadama lose his balance, because if Koa is going to to surrender, he might as well try to bring his opponent down as well.
