Xenos caught it mid-swing with the palm of his hand and casually stepped off the arc, but not before tripping her support leg and sweeping through with a light tap to Gaia's shoulder.
"More speed when you pivot. Your wrists are doing the thinking; let your legs do the work."
An overhead slam, a feint, a backward hop, a sink, and a spring.
He kept moving through it all; a spoken lesson slipped in after each.
"You swing from your elbow too much; put more of your weight behind the staff."
She countered with a few earth spears, which he easily dodged, and then a spike-filled wall that she was about to fling at him, only to vault over it and land on his flank, since she knew that he would easily dodge it.
Xenos laughed, loving the strategy, and pushed past her, forcing her to twist back.
When she did, he clipped the back of her neck with a finger, making her go still.
"Dead."
