<div class="floatright">(http://d.facdn.net/art/nuttynut93/1500943414/1500943364.nuttynut93_17._ready_for_action_.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Celeste Bellarose<br/><strong>Time:</strong>10:00-ish AM<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Celeste's Villa, Training Grounds<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Onyx<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>So, Onyx was essentially going for a feint, to catch Celeste off guard and then use that momentum to attack where she wasn't defending.  It was a good idea although feints were a little harder to perform with pole-arms like that than smaller, lighter weapons.  It wasn't something Celeste was expecting, but that didn't mean she wasn't prepared for it.  There were two mistakes someone holding a shield could make.  They could hold the shield too far from their body, which would make it harder to block attacks and easier to swat away or they could hold it too close, obscuring their vision and making it easier to hit anything that wasn't where the shield was.  In the latter, blows against the shield were easier to take, but the loss of vision could often prove deadly, so an experienced fighter found a middle-ground.<br/><br/>That didn't stop Celeste from blocking some of her vision, though.  What tipped her off was that the blow didn't come when she'd have expected it to.  That's what told her that it was a feint and in a moment so short it could only be explained by reflex honed over decades, Celeste dropped back a little, forcing Onyx to extend further and giving her a little more time.  A slight movement of the shield and she pushed forward again, centering the pike of the hammer on her shield, angling it and pushing back to throw the hammer to the side as she took the opportunity to take a few more steps forward and close as much distance as she could, lowering herself to the ground as well to keep herself as small a target as possible.