<div class="floatleft">(http://knuxx.com/nm/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prefight-pics-114.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Nuo<br/><strong>Location:</strong>New York, Westchester, The Xavier Institute<br/><strong>Whereabouts</strong>Elevator to Danger Room<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Running outfit<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Danger Room Team<br/><br/>“Last resort?  Wait too long and there no fight to have.”<br/><br/>The smile never faded even as she spoke her little quip of wisdom.  Running had been her life for a long time and she had no intention of returning t that life.  Weight shifted from one foot to the other, a simple series of hops that send shivers through the ground.  Arms began to spread out from her, thrusting her chest forward while she worked the muscles in her shoulders and arms to loosen.  Nuo made sure to take a simple hop backward from the others so that she could make use of some additional space.  Knees came upward, arms wrapping around each leg as the limb rose.  She gave a tight press and then arch to stretch out her lower limbs as well.  Never once did she seem concerned about losing her balance.  Even the disruption of Wolverine did little to break her concentration.  Instead she only let her grin deepen and the smile blossom.<br/><br/>A small series of strikes came next, though she kept her hands before her as she moved them in rapid rotation.  Across her arms and brow arrived a touch of sweat that she warmly welcomed.  The sequence was repeated again with her hands moving even faster in their rotation.  A blue came forth while the tightly controlled strikes rained forward and then ceased just as suddenly, only to repeat again.  Then she was back to her bouncing motions once more.<br/><br/>“No apple.  We here for practice.”<br/>