Darkwolf

"OUCH!" the girl fell on her back with a large bruise already growing on her left side.
The blonde, middle aged woman holding the staff stared down at her with a slight smile playing on her lips.
"You forgot to block," she said calmly.

The girls green eyes flashed, but she suppressed the strange anger she felt welling in her. She hooded her eyes to make herself look calm, but Aryll heard the tightness in her voice as she said, "How could I have blocked in two places at once?"
"That's why you use both ends of the staff," said Aryll, "up on your feet, Kavi."

Kavi jumped up and ran for her staff that had fallen at the other end of the stone cave. Suddenly, she was tripped from behind and fell face first near her staff.
"You never turn your back on your opponent," came the annoying voice behind her.

This time Kavi couldn't keep the anger from her voice,"YOU DIDN'T
HAVE TO TRIP ME OVER IT! ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS TELL ME!!"

"This way you won't forget what it feels like," answered Aryll. She looked at Kavi's green eyes and decided lessons were over for the day, "Take your staff and go."
Kavi got up, grabbed her staff, and stormed out of the cave.

Aryll walked into a side cave and laid her staff on two nails above
the fire place and sighed. She sat on her bed and stared into the fire she had lit before Kavi came over.

She sat that way for a long while as the fire guttered low, thinking about the thirteen-year-old girl with black hair, green eyes, and strange green lips. Kavi had the makings of a great swordsman, but Aryll hadn't learned the ways of the sword, as her brother had, sufficently enough to teach Kavi.

After returning from the Forsaken fortress with the pirates, Aryll had asked Orca to teach her the ways of the staff. She had learned very well, and had taken over his position when he had passed away.

Kavi could become a great fighter, but she was impatient to learn. She had fire running through her and couldn't keep from getting angry. But she retained her lessons well.

Aryll had also noticed that Kavi was restless as the sea that had slowly been shrinking, so that islands looked more like mountains rising from a low sea. The Great Sea was becoming no longer great.

Aryll sighed as so much worry about Kavi, the sea that was ebbing away, and the people of Outset Island who had come to live there after the rest had moved to escape the monsters, wieghed on her.

These people certainly didn't like her or Kavi.

Aryll sighed again and lay back on her bed to sleep for a while.

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