#// hellooo welcome to the deer! would you like to hit a professor with weapons?

[aimlessarchery]

Normally, Python's schedule would be a little more relaxed after he's through with the preparation→execution→get-mock-executed cycle that was the Battle of Eagle and Lion this year. He'd duck aside after his early exit and find a nice place to nap on the emptier-than-usual campus of Garreg Mach. He wouldn't even have to think about weapons or sparring for the rest of the day. Normally, he wouldn't find a note on his desk about a brand new transfer student in need of combat assessment. Unfortunately, Python's life continues to be filled with abnormal situations, big and small alike. With a sharp grunt of effort, he hauls a training dummy into its proper place near one of the stone pillars that line the training grounds. The back of a gloved hand wipes the sweat from his brow, then reaches for one of the standard-issue lances snatched from storage. (His own is in his room somewhere…probably.) Slung around his torso is his more usual weapon of choice—an unassuming longbow. He drives the butt of the lance into the dirt below his feet, leaning into it as a support and assessing his new pupil with a critical eye. The young man is tall—probably not among the youngest of the student body, but not quite the oldest either. Hard to tell when he's wearing that strange mask across his eyes. The stern sort of air about him means Python isn't about to ask him to take it off. "Gerome, was it? Name's Python." he offers with a tilt of his head, "Archery instructor. I'm the unlucky duck who got booted out of the fancy mock battle early enough to come back here for more battling. Bigwigs wanted somebody to test your combat skills, figure out what sorta classes to put you in." He lets out a long, low sigh, back bowed forward as he laments his fate. Then he straightens up, rolls his shoulders back, and gestures toward the dummy at his side. "So, you wanna start with him or with me? Straw-for-brains over here doesn't fight back, if that sways your opinion at all."

@deathsdue

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