Wild Berry Meadow A mountain of a man!

The two shadows departing in the distance go unnoticed as he obliges Alya's simply worded challenge, slipping around her other side and clashing his shoulder with her side in a rather tame attempt to knock her over. At least, tame in comparison to other approaches he might have taken should she have been a real enemy. He doesn't want to hurt her, a possibility that could easily become a reality if he was to play too roughly, as with most others. It doesn't for a second cross his mind that the physical contact on that level would procure an entirely different range of emotions for her, as lust and fighting are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum for him -- one of which he has not completely got figured out yet.