Zavien
Just as he suspected, his teasing gets the opposite of a playful response. Koa seems too absorbed in his own suffering to return the friendly jibe. Instead, Zavien is forced to keep up with the onslaught of carefully placed punches. Despite his inferior experience, having known what to expect, he receives the attacks with only a small level of difficulty.
He dips under an incoming fist, side stepping around his friend. It doesn't make him happy to simultaneously see so much and so little emotion concentrated behind Koa's eyes. And it brings him even less pleasure to antagonize him, but Zavien knows what his role is today. He's already accepted the wounds to come. So he raises an eyebrow, shaking his head in disappointment. "You're getting reckless. Do you expect to win like this?"
He dips under an incoming fist, side stepping around his friend. It doesn't make him happy to simultaneously see so much and so little emotion concentrated behind Koa's eyes. And it brings him even less pleasure to antagonize him, but Zavien knows what his role is today. He's already accepted the wounds to come. So he raises an eyebrow, shaking his head in disappointment. "You're getting reckless. Do you expect to win like this?"
I learned that in suffering,
we find the true measure of our strength.
we find the true measure of our strength.
