The original was actualy made for a Laurel K. Hamilton fan ficiton, and she managed to contact the unseelie court for sword training in return for a blank check favor.  The story was about the calling in of that favour.<br/><br/>And it wasn't a Fiona, but a Liam.  The house that was banished for protecting mortals from the sidhe.  The idea was that, in order to have Melee five, she'd need a rather extraordinary teacher, such as an imortal.  I had the idea that she might have studdied under a Liam Sidhe who never fled to Arcadia at the Shattering but had been wandering the world since the Mythic AGe, battling creatures of the night and occaisionaly taking aprentices, such as a young mage intrested in sword play and willing to fight to protect the inocent.<br/><br/>Another possiblity is that said Sidhe had been a friend and lover of hers through multiple incarnations of her Avatar.<br/><br/>Heh, now I REALY like that idea.<br/><br/>Hm...  My answer to how a two intelgence person would be an A/B student is aplying herself and the fact that school is easy, but given that my own intelgence is probably more like 3, I'm biased.