“I am,” Luca says seriously, pushing up from the floor as he intuits that the lesson is done.
“Well then,” Blaze says, looking at him for a long second and then shifting his eyes to me. “Perhaps you can put our Ariel through a different set of paces. See if her dodging skills adapt well to a different fighting style, or if she’s only able to dodge me because I’m the one that taught her.”
My eyes go wide a bit as I start to understand Blaze’s proposal. “Wait, you want me to fight Luca? Do you – do you know who he is? What he can do with those fists!?”
“You said he is your creature,” Blaze says, shrugging, I think a bit pleased with himself as he turns quietly and heads towards the other door in the room – though I don’t know where it leads. “I doubt he will punch you very hard, Ariel. See you tomorrow!”
And with a little wave, Blaze disappears through the door.
“What do you say, gorgeous,” Luca says, grinning at me and moving to the center of the room. “Wanna fight me?”
“Um, no!” I say, even though I follow him to the spot at the center of the room where I always start with Blaze. When I get there, Luca raises his fist into his boxer’s stance, his muscles smoothly settling into it in a way that suggests he’s done it a hundred thousand times before. Which, of course, he has.
“Oh, come,” Luca says, smirking and giving me a cheeky wink. “I won’t hit hard.”
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