[ let beau hold a hand non-platonically ]

[coastal]

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[disreguarded]

Yes I'm actually trained to be immune to poison, not that it's any of your fucking business. [ beau sounds amused still though! sometimes her speech is way more aggressive than she feels. ] I'm a monk. It's a thing.

[coastal]

[yea, lili doesn't actually seem to be all that judgmental (for now), it's definitely just... her bluntly saying whatever comes to mind

but

hm]

... How did you train?

[disreguarded]

I had a teacher. It's a whole thing with ki and meditation and stuff, it's boring.

[coastal]

But it makes you stronger, doesn't it?

[which makes her immediately interested, unfortunately]

[disreguarded]

Yeah, I guess so. I can't use my ki right now, which figures. But I'm not half bad in a fight. It's really hard to kill me.

[coastal]

Oh, that's good.

[she tilts her head]

Would you be willing to teach someone?

[disreguarded]

What, how to be hard to kill?

[coastal]

I'd say I need that quality, yes. I'd like all of us to have it - but I'm willing to put in the work to actually accomplish it.

[disreguarded]

[ her lips twitch. ] Sure.

I can't guarantee it's gonna work since you don't have ki and I don't either, but I can take a shot at it.

[coastal]

[i can't believe that it's the first thread and beau is getting an easygoing grin out of lili]

I'll take whatever I can get - I just wanna beat up whoever put us all in here.

Oh. And I'm Lili. I'd say nice to meet you, but this is a terrible place.

[she could say less]

[disreguarded]

[ achievement unlocked ]

Fuck yeah, now that's something I can get behind. [ beau says, with a laugh. ] I'm Beau. Ditto on this being fucking terrible.

I'll teach you how to punch shit and we can knock the person who put us here around, deal?

[coastal]

Yes, please!

[SHE'S SO STARRY-EYED OVER THE IDEA OF BEATING SOMEONE UP]

[disreguarded]

[ she - loves this? beau loves this, what the fuck ]

Okay, so how much about punching do you know, do you have any sort of training at all? [ she says, while still eating. ]

[coastal]

[hmmm she looks thoughtful]

I've punched on instinct before, but I've been training daily in swordsmanship for the past two months.

And I'm used to being in danger.

[don't be used to that]

[disreguarded]

[ at least she's not alone in being used to danger ]

Gotcha, okay. [ sniff. ] So I guess the first thing I gotta teach you is how to punch, because you can fuck up your hand if you don't know how to do it properly.

[coastal]

[ . . . she? tilts her head? and then immediately just!! makes a fist!!!]

Like...?

[disreguarded]

Hold on. [ she balances the plate in one hand before reaching over to rearrange lili's fist so she doesn't immediately break her thumb on impact. ]

Better. Make sure you keep it like that.

[coastal]

[oh, fun

well lili will accept the correction and then immediately jab at the air in front of her, because she is just a little demon in training]

Noted.