[She also doesn't go all out, circling and testing, trying to find a rhythm, but she also isn't holding back to the degree that she was the first time they sparred, either. She's fast, agile, graceful, handles combat with an ease that speaks of familiarity, more experience than her age would speak for.
For Ava part of holding back is for safety, so it's harder to let her powers slip. So she does still hold back some. Both out of innate paranoia, and for safety. She's light on her feet, but there's something brutal in how she fights too; targets soft spots, a punch to a throat, a kick to the kidneys, and that slips.
She's nothing like the girl that pretended she only sort of knew how to fight.]
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For Ava part of holding back is for safety, so it's harder to let her powers slip. So she does still hold back some. Both out of innate paranoia, and for safety. She's light on her feet, but there's something brutal in how she fights too; targets soft spots, a punch to a throat, a kick to the kidneys, and that slips.
She's nothing like the girl that pretended she only sort of knew how to fight.]