<div class="floatleft">(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h215/wontsubmit/waterson1.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Qiang Nuo<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Student<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Near the Courts (After the Daken fight)<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Open, Ragnar<br/><br/>To say Nuo was fast was to speak mildly.  Already she had sensed his presence, felt the pressure of kinetic energy from his movements leak into her own body.  So soon had she determined his place behind her but the numbness of her hands kept her attention from turning to him.  Fingers flexed before his voice registered in his mind.  The smile turning into a beaming one as a challenge was presented to her, a moment to shine and show.  Fighting an opponent to her rear was not a new exercise for her as both Wing Chun and Wu Shu trained their students to do so, yet neither had relied on the close strikes of the elbow and knee to the extent Ragnar expected and she had learned neither in the anticipation of combat.  Yet she would rise to the demand given.<br/><br/>The urge to kick back was resisted as she spun to her right.  At her side the elbow dropped down and then rose upward as she turned around in an attempt to catch him with the back of the joint.  A blow from Nuo didn’t feel the same as from other women her size.  Even without her powers the physical prowess was enough to level most men, but even when reserving her power there was the leak of energy that spilled over to give speed and force.  Like a train her blow rushed through and with the grace of a dancer she moved into the next motion.  Hips continued their turn so that the force carried her up from the ground.  The back knee came forward as she was brought toward him, setting this between them with the desire to injury and keep close.<br/><br/>Still the instinct was there as she landed she also sought to break away from him.  Arms came up to brace between them.  Elbows bent she presented the sides of her hands with the stoic stance of Wing Chun, one hand forward while the other rested back.  Still an adherent to the form.<br/>