The sky had just begun to turn dark, the sounds of loud laughter and the crackle of fire coming from the other side of a thin wall of trees and shrubbery. But this was on neither Thorfinn's nor your minds as you held your weapons up and ready.

The two of you had begun to occasionally spar, having a mutual value in expanding your combat knowledge and ability. There wasn't much chitchat between you despite spending more and more time around each other aside from after these spars, and it was really only about the fight that had just ended.

Thorfinn stood with his daggers in hand, slightly crouched in a fighting stance with the same scowl he seemed to always have. "You taking the first shot, or am I?" He spoke with a mild taunt but a straight face.