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"Good. Cicero is fast, too." Cicero smiled briefly at Xan; being fast wasn't necessarily better than being strong — Cicero found it a challenge himself at times, actually — but it would make it easier for Cicero to teach Xan a thing or two, as he had more experience with fast fighting than brawny, strong fighting. Damien could teach that part.

"One thing that can work is pretending to attack, but then attacking elsewhere. Like so." Cicero dove to the right, pretending to go for Xan's neck, but last minute dove left instead and tried to topple him over by carefully grabbing one of his legs.