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praimfaya tries to recall blodreina's lessons — it shouldn't be as hard as it is, she thinks — but mesa's rage is insistent. she blocks when he attacks ...though his teeth do find purchase on her cheek. she attempts to repay it with a fierce snap of her own teeth at his cheek. the injury stings and but she is determined to keep hammering at him as good as he gave until something happened. either they would tear into each other or wear each other out.

just as the grapple begun to get good, blodreina's voice cuts through her snarl and the snapping of teeth. praimfaya is the first to break it. she snaps her teeth at him once more before putting distance between them. her mother's footsteps grew louder and though she felt a surge of annoyance for her mother's interruption she knows she cannot keep her waiting. one day very soon, praimfaya would understand mesa's rage and she would regret feeling this annoyance at blodreina. one day, she would give anything to have her mother interrupt a child's spat again.

she offers mesa no words as she departs, leaving him to his rage and his sorrow to find blodreina, swatting away her mother's concern over the few injuries she has suffered from mesa's teeth. when asked, she doesn't tell her mother how she got them. she merely shifts the conversation to their next lesson eager to put the inconclusive fight behind her.