It was gratifying to see his efforts come to fruition, especially after the failure of the first round. Though he preferred a more delicate approach, there was something to be said for brute strength at times, and he was pragmatic enough to use it when it was most expedient. The foiling of Edmund's attack had truly been an accident however, and Hadama inclined his head in silent apology to his young friend.
There was little time for any words to be exchanged before Evie was moving the lesson along, giving them no time to catch their breath as she did so. It was, indeed, not so different from a battle or emergency situation in its pacing and Hadama's jaw tightened grimly as he was pushed out of his comfort zone of careful deliberation and into the far more precarious position of needing to make snap decisions.
With projectiles coming at him from above, hard to see due to the sun in his eyes, he reached instinctively for an old defensive maneuver: he drew the wind around him into a spiraling vortex, designed to catch incoming objects and fling them off course. It meant that he didn't have to be able to pinpoint their exact location to counter them, and once they were within the localized twister he could use their momentum to slingshot them around and back at Evie with a wicked gleam of mischief in his sapphire-hued eyes.
Hadama creates a small twister of wind around him to pull the pigeons off course. If he's successful, he'll use the spin of the little tornado to fling a pigeon back at Evie!
There was little time for any words to be exchanged before Evie was moving the lesson along, giving them no time to catch their breath as she did so. It was, indeed, not so different from a battle or emergency situation in its pacing and Hadama's jaw tightened grimly as he was pushed out of his comfort zone of careful deliberation and into the far more precarious position of needing to make snap decisions.
With projectiles coming at him from above, hard to see due to the sun in his eyes, he reached instinctively for an old defensive maneuver: he drew the wind around him into a spiraling vortex, designed to catch incoming objects and fling them off course. It meant that he didn't have to be able to pinpoint their exact location to counter them, and once they were within the localized twister he could use their momentum to slingshot them around and back at Evie with a wicked gleam of mischief in his sapphire-hued eyes.
Hadama creates a small twister of wind around him to pull the pigeons off course. If he's successful, he'll use the spin of the little tornado to fling a pigeon back at Evie!
