Redsand Canyon where habits have teeth and the words carry knives

She was eager to see how the stranger moved. Before, Aquene had the opportunity to simply be around the Imperator or Kallik before she sparred with them… but this was her first encounter with Towhee, and everything about her besides her name was a mystery. She shot a wide grin and then she was leaping. Aquene found herself caught off guard, reacting at the last second. Before in her other spars there had been some kind of nod or gesture to signal the start.
 
In that moment, she realized she would not always be that fortunate. She spun her body, hoping to make the woman connect with the bony part of her shoulder instead of her neck, hoping to meet with an uppercut-like fashion similar to how she had moved against the Imperator, her maw reaching for the woman's upper leg in that moment for a light grip, not intent to cause harm.