Jessica
"I can indeed! If you're going to learn how to use a staff though, you're going to have to fight like it's second nature. If you hesitate, you get hit. If you need to think about what's next, you die. Fighting is inherently dangerous. Be sure to train hard."

*Diao rubs the back of her neck, her tone changing to a more embarrassed one.*

"Though admittedly, I haven't been able to train in years because of my situation. It's only been about a week or two since I've had the arms. So maybe we can get better together!"

*Diao conjures up a quarterstaff, tossing it to Juna, before creating her own and spinning it a few times.*

"Wow... That feels nice to use."
Elizabeth
*'Second nature?' Juna wondered. Usually it was her first nature to try to avoid fighting unless someone was looking for trouble, but even then she still found herself hesitating with her bow, knowing full well one wrong shot could be enough to kill someone on sight. She didn't like the thought of it, the mere image of what her arrows alone could do to those who may have been innocent all along, sickening her. Her shortbow was meant for hunting, nothing more, maybe now she could finally retire it from the life of combat.

Lost in thought for a moment, Juna almost didn't see the staff that Diao had tossed to her, quickly dropping the stick she had to catch it more easily with a slight flinch to it. She looked at the staff she held, her grip loosening and tightening on it, maybe she could become attuned into using it to where she didn't have to think much in the moment of combat, much like her bow, though her bow took years of practice to get to where she was now.

Diao said the staff wasn't as hard to learn, but to train hard perhaps for the sake of moving in the motion. She looked back up towards Diao, her gaze shifting to the arm she had once recalled missing from its place.*"How... Did you lose your arm...?"*Juna would ask, hoping she wasn't bringing up something that could have been personal while she took the time to get into one of the guard stances Grey had shown her to see if it felt any different with this new staff.*
Jessica
*The woman would study the canifor as she looked at the staff. Just as she thought. Only hunting animals, never people. In fighting, you had to be the danger, not the one hunting it.*

"Ah, my arm? Well, I had an angry challenger who lost to me. He poisoned me using the tea during the duel, and I was weakened enough that he was able to cut off my arm with his sword. I ended up killing him soon afterwards."

*Diao grimaces ever so slightly, still remembering the feeling.*

"It's also why I'm weak as hell now. If I had retained my strength I could have used a heavier weapon, but the poison just crippled me. Hence why I have these."

*Diao suddenly gets in a stance, and throws a solid diagonal blow at Juna, making sure to stop before actually hitting her.*

"Block!"
Elizabeth
"...Poison...?"*She'd say in a tone of quiet disbelief. Surely one never had to reduce themselves than needing to use poison to win a fight. Wasn't that a coward's way of winning? As the thought crossed her mind, she suddenly question if she should be the one to judge knowing full well she was a coward herself, but to think that one act left Diao scarred for potentially the rest of her life didn't sit right in her.*

"I'm... So sorry..."*She murmured, her ears lowering down atop her. Maybe it would have been better if she didn't ask, she could tell that speaking about it now still seemed the wound the woman just as much as the poison still did day to day.

Suddenly seeing Diao swing the staff down towards her, she'd raise her own to block it more so out of instinct than actually knowing how to best react to it. Her eyes would squeeze shut, almost as if she were expecting to get hit by it anyways in her flinching away from expecting it to come.*