Edmund neatly dodged the incoming attack, and if Hadama had thought that the Ancient could hear him he would have offered a word of praise through the Attuned bond. Especially when the young man picked up the technique immediately and attempted to repeat it back upon the merman. His instincts were good, and whether that was because of his race or simply because he was his mother's son it didn't really matter.
What mattered was the result.
Though Hadama might have allowed the final touch, he suspected the young warrior would not appreciate such patronizing. So he reacted, his body twisting within the column of water that sustained his motion so close to land as he mirrored Edmund's recent dodge and he used his greater strength to force the corseque away from his body. His magic wave carried him forward as part of the same motion as he closed the distance between them in a rush, and he twisted his lower half further so that his whip-like tail cut out from the water and came behind Edmund's knees to knock the young man down. Though he held his water back he followed his opponent's movements with his icy trident, intending to hold the sharp, cold tines lightly just above the Ancient's chest.
"Very good," he rumbled, letting the weapon melt back into water and rejoin the ocean. He offered Edmund his hand instead, helping him up before pulling his magic wave back into the sea and subsiding back to his more usual 'height' within the natural waves. "You learn quickly. I see why Ray was proud of you."
With the spar over the Tidebreaker felt some of the pain he had been channeling fade away as well. Enough, for now, that he put away his weapons in favor of talking to the young man who had inherited his friend's will and fierce protectiveness. To build something new from the ashes of what they had both lost.
~Fin~
What mattered was the result.
Though Hadama might have allowed the final touch, he suspected the young warrior would not appreciate such patronizing. So he reacted, his body twisting within the column of water that sustained his motion so close to land as he mirrored Edmund's recent dodge and he used his greater strength to force the corseque away from his body. His magic wave carried him forward as part of the same motion as he closed the distance between them in a rush, and he twisted his lower half further so that his whip-like tail cut out from the water and came behind Edmund's knees to knock the young man down. Though he held his water back he followed his opponent's movements with his icy trident, intending to hold the sharp, cold tines lightly just above the Ancient's chest.
"Very good," he rumbled, letting the weapon melt back into water and rejoin the ocean. He offered Edmund his hand instead, helping him up before pulling his magic wave back into the sea and subsiding back to his more usual 'height' within the natural waves. "You learn quickly. I see why Ray was proud of you."
With the spar over the Tidebreaker felt some of the pain he had been channeling fade away as well. Enough, for now, that he put away his weapons in favor of talking to the young man who had inherited his friend's will and fierce protectiveness. To build something new from the ashes of what they had both lost.
~Fin~
