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Heroneye
| she/her | RiverClan | Lionheart |

Heroneye's head shot to the side as a sound caught her attention. She couldn't pinpoint Spiderpaw's exact location, but the shifting and crackling of the old tree told her that the apprentice was making her way up its trunk, evidentally attempting to nullify and exceed Heroneye's previous advantage in height.

Even so, she couldn't exactly retaliate without knowing the apprentice's location. She could try to run out of range of the tree or take cover, make it so that Spiderpaw wouldn't be able to land on Heroneye directly, but that opened her up to distraction, making her more vulnerable. In a battle perhaps she would have taken her chances with that approach, but today she figured she would try something a bit more unconventional.

[ Heroneye rolled a seven out of ten. ]

Spiderpaw sprung down from the tree. Heroneye's plan was to slip out from under the apprentice and go back onto the ground, but the Lionheart wasn't quite fast enough. While Spiderpaw didn't land on her directly, the weight under the apprentice's front paws did land and was enough to stun Heroneye for a heartbeat.

"Alright," Heroneye said, abandoning her battle stance to face Spiderpaw. She liked to end these sparring sessions after the apprentice had been successful in some way, to leave off on a positive note for them. Or perhaps she prefered to end things before they had the chance to turn out too badly for the Lionheart, she thought with an amused twitch of her whiskers. Whatever the case may be, then seemed a good a time as any to wrap things up for the day.

"You seem to understand how to use your surroundings to your advantage," Heroneye appraised with a not of her head. "But I believe we've come to the end of this training session; I've nothing more to teach you today." In any case, she figured the apprentice could use some rest; they had already been out for quite some time, after all.

"If you're ready, we may return to camp."

( @namen_roodles - Spiderpaw )