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[Carefully observing those training down below.]

An apparent lack of form. Too easy to lure some in...

See, [He nods toward the exchange.] His opponent see it as a weakness. So he shifts his movements, attempting to gain a strike...and is stroke instead.

Mm.

[This is why Elisha doesn't actually challenge in fencing, even if he can fence. It's not his forte in the least. Far better at knife-fighting and hand-to-hand.]

Considering picking one out?

[Or off, really.]

The thought has crossed my mind.

[Though, for now, it is merely a thought.]

Well, it has been a while.

[Unlike with Elisha, who burned up the ranks in the middle of last year to get to Ten. Victor...hasn't challenged for at least four years. Elisha was a Four, the last time.]

All things worth having come with time.

[And there isn't much reason to not do it. He really needs to do something, at least, before going a bit stir crazy.]

Have you ever met Alek, before?

[Elisha tips his head to one side, and then shakes his head. Amazing as it is, he hasn't actually met every Spade. Though not for lack of trying.]

No. A Ten, I take it?

One of them, aye.

[The weakest link, as it were.]

Probably not worth making his acquaintance.

[Goodbye. As it were.]

Perhaps not. David would have to approve.

[Or Katya. But either case- one of them.]

Yes.

[Alexander had approved his two recent ones - Six to Eight, Eight to Ten. Which was probably why he had the king's ever-so-close attention.]

I don't believe your queen was in the Deck the last time you had a challenge, was she? Sieben certainly wasn't.

It has been nearly five years since my last challenge. I do not believe My Lady was among us yet, but I do not recall either.

Four years, I believe, since Her Majesty arrived. I could be wrong, of course.

[Three for Sieben, because he remembers when that piece of the past came crashing through the door.]

She might have been here in that time. [He said with a shrug.] I've never kept track of those that had come to watch.

Perhaps you should ask her, rather than David.

[He shrugs. He doesn't know the Queen of Spades well, although they flirt in Russian together often enough.]

Perhaps. It wouldn't gain her many friends, first round out of the cage, however.

No. But that's on her.

Suppose it would be.

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