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It's very cold outside. But when you keep moving, it's not so bad, even if you aren't dressed for it.

Saionji's borrowed a broom from the Bar, along with the bamboo shinai he's currently practicing with, and swept a clear area in the snow alongside the wall of the stables. Proper kendo requires that your foot strike the ground at the same moment you make contact with the weapon, and this doesn't work all that well in two feet of snow. The uncovered grass is flat and tired, and currently getting stomped on by a kendoka as he moves through the various strikes and thrusts of his kata.

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"I would imagine so," Saionji says, conciliatory. "But that doesn't mean I intend to stab you."

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"One is never sure."

His arms fold defensively across his chest.

"You could really really not like the cold? Then you might try."

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"No amount of dislike," Saionji says, with growing irritability, "is going to make a bamboo sword sharp."

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"Is it bamboo?"

Jack is suddenly quite a bit closer, trying to get a better look.

"You would be surprised what you can stab people with. The strangest things. Would you like some raisins?"

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"..." Topic shift whiplash!

Saionji closes his eyes. "No, thank you."

He points to the end of the shinai, holding it out. "It's capped with rubber, too."

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"Oh, then I am fine."

Jack's good at that! Yay, no attention span!

"I am nimble anyways."

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[ooc: and something big has just come up. Gonna have to beg a slowtime/fade, at your discretion. Deepest apologies.]

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[OOC: That's okay, we can fade here.]