Thane dashed forwards, swinging her hammer in an arc that would have knocked her opponent into a bone shattered unconsciousness if it had connected. Instead, there was a crunch of wood on wood as Vladamir's shield turned the blow aside, his training axe already rising in a counterstroke. She felt the wind above her neck as she ducked, jabbing the head of her hammer into Vlad's ribs as she straightened up. Vlad doubled over, then dived into her as she backed away, knocking them both to the ground. Training axe and hammer went flying, but Thane felt the point of a very real dagger against her throat.
"Yield," Vlad suggested.
"Perhaps we should call it a draw instead?" Thane suggested.
"Look down, girlie," Vlad snorted.
Thane grinned. "Look further down, eunuch," she said. Vladamir looked, saw where Thane's knife was aimed and nodded silently.
"A good fight," he said.
"They found out who was contaminating the sunshine production," Thane said as they found their feet.
"Perhaps, but ve all know Gnora is the ringkleader," Vlad shrugged.
"They were working out of the rooms I had dug for the baron. If you'd just moved into them-"
"There are hundreds of other places they could have found to work, you should be thankful they were choosink somewhere so stupid, yes? Besides, what kind of crazy dwarf is needink three rooms to live in?"
Thane shrugged. "I don't know, it's just what nobles do."
"Vell, I will not. Is stupid for Vlad to have three rooms he never uses anyway when dwarves are havink nowhere to sleep."
"It impresses the liaisons. They might give better trade deals if they saw that we can waste so many supplies just to keep one person happy," Thane pointed out.
"Bah, liaison wants for us to get married as well. 'Is not fitting for nobility to be sleepink in same place as unmarried woman,' they are sayink," Vlad spat.
"Would it really be that bad?" asked Thane.
"Marriage? Perhaps not. But I will not do it just because some upjumped ambush bait thinks we should."
Thane nodded. "Another round?"
"I don't know, I'm kind of-" Vlad began, then swung his axe at her knees. Thane jumped, laughing wildly.
A small lizard wearing a snail shell watched the scene silently. So intently, in fact, that it didn't notice the cat behind it. Perhaps its reptilian mind would take some pleasure in the knowledge that Thane would sprain her ankle the next morning because the cat left its remains outside her door.
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