<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Bet</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/eRBwTzu.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Albion<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 12th, 2021, Mid Afternoon<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE, Training Grounds<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Nerissa<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Preparing for round two<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>As pictured<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"Well, if I'm not okay, I'm definitely going to be feeling this tonight and tomorrow. But tomorrow looks like it's going to be a slow day anyway, so I don't have to worry about it too much." Albion remarked as he pushed himself to a stand once Nerissa -POOFED!- off his chest. One could see his getting up was a little slow, and his stretching seem to draw pained twitches from his face, but he was otherwise ready to continue. "It'd be laughable to me and everyone else if I couldn't fight on through even this much. It's nothing compared to the stuff I did when I was younger."<br/><br/>Then again, the kind of training he got involved with was not only physically demanding but sometimes mentally scarring too. It very much wound up survival of the fittest, but he put those thoughts aside for the time being. In the present, such training wasn't required, and would even feel more wasteful as it should have been back then. Young and dumb didn't even begin to describe his old years... Maybe he wasn't too far off from that point even now. But at the least, he was in a relatively better place with much better company.<br/><br/>The name call had earned Neri a moment of Albion giving her a flat look and snorting. "I hope that isn't my catch phrase or something... But since you want to be playful, let's do something different. How about we make a game out of it?" He folded his arms, knowing the little fox loved games of all sorts... However, there were certain caveats that made games more interesting. "On the mat, you and I fight, punches, kicks, slaps, grabs, anything and everything within your power. If you pin me down once for ten seconds, you win. But I win if I pin you down three times, ten seconds each." He hummed, moving toward his bag and unzipping it to withdraw the cushioned gear he probably should have been using when he first asked Neri to test herself against him.<br/><br/>He wore it this time to help mitigate any if the blows he would be dealing against her, but there was still one important thing missing from the game... A reward, or even a reason to engage in the activity, and Albion had apparently forgotten to 'sweeten the deal' so to speak.