"You both are."

This comment came from Meleth, who stood leaning against a large tree, arms folded. "I am certainly glad I do not have to battle against either of you, though I suppose my own skill is no small achievement, either."

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"Aye, I agree with Meleth, you both are superb fighters." Avalyn walked toward the training grounds with her hands on her hips.

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"Bah, if theres anything superb about fancy spinning around mixed with firebolts then I am a halfling. One painful kick to the groin and cracking your foes skull now that tastes like a kill..."

Rieltar chuckled to himself as he had along with some other dwarves gathered to the edge of the training ground to watch as the two had fought.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Erkanis noticed that the rather cynical and rude dwarf was watching with some of his friends. He paid no heed to them as he focused on his foe.

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"Indeed, dwarf?" queried Meleth, turning sharply to look at him appraisingly. "Perhaps you'd like to test the effectiveness of fancy spinning around? I happen to be quite adept, I'll have you know." She twirled one of her long knives meaningfully. "Or perhaps you'll find me too difficult - how did you put it? - 'One painful kick to the groin and cracking your foe's skull' is not particularly effective on this elf."

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Korinth smiled. He new he shouldn't, but he just couldn't help but poke fun at the dwarf. "Plus, my fellow comrade." He added to Meleth's comment. "How do you suppose you will "crack a foe's skull" if you can't even reach?" The vritch smiled slightly. He new this was slighly out of line, but he really couldn't help it. Next time. He thought to himself. Nextime I will be good.

"Aye, ye be having points there fools, but the fact be that the higher they are the higher they fall and I need not to crack their skulls at first. Just their knee`s and then their head..."

He chuckled to himself.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"Unless thay do this first," replied Meleth cuttingly, and faster than mortal eyes could follow an arrow had buried itself in the tree behind Rieltar, ruffling his beard as it passed. "Do not think yourself superior to all, dwarf, many here could disarm you faster than blinking."

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Rieltar hmped as he gazed at the arrow and crossed his arms on his chest.

"Never have I claimed to be better than others, I was simply revealing my personal opinion and besides hardly can you say that with much power when you have no proof or shall you stand up to be worthy of those words?"

Rieltar asked daringly as he was clearly picking up a fight with Meleth or anyone else that dared to challenge him.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Korinth's eyes glittered fiercly. A fight? It would be interesting, but Koltok stepped up beside the vritch. "Why do they argue?" the centaur asked. He trotted toward the dwarf and elf. Here he goes again... Korinth thought to himself. But instead of making a grand speach, the centaur merly glanced over at them and said "A fight amonst allies is a victory for the enemy"

Meleth's eyebrows shot up incredulously. "No proof? Look around you, dwarf, the proof is evident!" She indicated that training ground with a wave of her long-fingered hand, including Erkanis and Lana, who were obviously superb dualists. Her black eyes glittered dangerously. "I, for one, am up to the challenge of proving to you that there are better techniques than a kick to the groin and cracking your foe's skull." She was clearly not averse to picking a fight herself, or at least not averse to perpetuating one.

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Koltok snorted in fustration, but kept his temper. Deep inside he too had a feeling that would stir up and try to make him act irationally, but he took control and didn't let that feeling, that anger rule him. Why couldn't the others? "Please...." He said quietly but firmly. "Just let it go, both of you."

"Nonsens, I don't mean to hurt him," Meleth said, rather insultingly. "Though I suppose if it means so much to you..." and she was back in her nonchalant position, leaning gracefully against a tree with no intention of picking a fight, but the glitter in her eyes had not subsided.

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"Phft... the fact is that elves and men think ye are so superior just because you stand higher than others, I have brought down a giant alone by myself and I needed not fancy ways of spinning around"

Rieltar said and finnished with the matter before quietly muttering something in his beard as he gazed at Lana.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Avalyn had watched the whole thing take place with a intrest that came naterally to her, she was always a spectator of something it seemed... She then came into view of the others, and went up beside Koltok, so that only he could hear her enough to understand what she was saying,

"It seems to me that they are already battling with words."

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"That is too true" The centaur sighed. "I do what I can to keep the peace, but sometimes it seems that I am trying to control children who know not a speck of self control." He stomped a hoof. "How do we plan to fight the enemy when we fight our comrades?"