Nande Salaren

**Combat Training** (teaching and getting hit on purpose, mostly)

**Doctor Nande Salaren is brandishing a stick of appropriate spear size.
**Marcella Soothesinger followed back, having gotten a length from the tree, it was quite long, thinning at it got to the top. About polearm in length. She lifts her hand to the top of the stick, snapping a section off, limiting her reach, though mimicing the effect of dagger and sword.
**Marcella Soothesinger just had a polite and kind smile about her, with her outward meek appearence, it was almost comical that she could hold something, anything in a threatening manner.
**Doctor Nande Salaren nods and takes a step back, pointing the "spear" at Marcella. "Hit my spear out of the way, then stab me." she demands.
**Marcella Soothesinger nods her head. She stepped forward on her right leg, planting it in the ground, the leg was bent, lowering her body slightly, but also pushing her a little closer to the woman. Readying herself in a fighting stance. The longer stick pointed towards he woman, he left hand which clutched her 'dagger' was off to her side lightly, though the blade pointed upwards, covering a fraction of her ribs.
**Marcella Soothesinger pushed off her right leg, straightening and making a small hop towards her, sliding against the dirt . She twisted her wrist a little, bringing the arc of the sword at an angle. She'd attempt both motions at once. With the shortsword coming inwards of the spear, pushing at the shaft, if able to, this would glide the stick down against the 'spear', slapping one of her hands or arms that held it.
**Doctor Nande Salaren lets it happen. After she gets slapped she nods, "Okay interesting tactic. I'd have gone for a swipe-the-spear-away-with-sword and stab-with-dagger maneuver, but slicing hands is effective in it's own way." and she raises her spear with two hands as if to strike downward onto Marcella's head, "Go ahead and block this."
**Marcella Soothesinger would try to step forward into the blow, lifting her arm up, the blade turned again, if a real sword the cross guard would no longer be in the way. As the spear comes down she angles off the sword, The tip would cross from left to right of the spear. Her arm buckles a little however, not the strongest girl, but she perserves. Hopefully the blow wod ride down the sword and lose some of it's bite, and then the spear shaft would fall down her arm, uncomfortable yes, but undamaging no.
**If she did block, she'd continue stepping forward with her momentum, and the woman would be on the receiving end of a bit of harmless twig being thrust towards her floating ribs.
**Doctor Nande Salaren is blocks and stabbed. "Good move!" she says. "But this time I'm gonna move." she says, taking a couple of steps back and resetting her stance. "Oh and I'm going to *try* to hit you." she smiles.
**Marcella Soothesinger nods her head, a breathing a little laboured, her eyes widen out of subconcious, primal fear. Stinging memories of the last week driving to the forefront. A rasping cough. "Al-Alright, I feel like I'm going to learn what it's like to be hit again."
**Doctor Nande Salaren uses her "spear" like a glaive and uses her stick to make wide swipe at Marcella's legs. She is probably around 6 feet away, a considerable distance, thanks to her height and spear length.
**Marcella Soothesinger had kept her bent leg posture, slowly her body wobbled between standing almost straight and the leg crouched like a lunge. The woman's lithe body, time sprinting through the forests and her eventual escape had honed her somewhat. As the Galive swept for her front leg she tried to bring her right foot up as she pushed off the bent leg. Her stand wobbled, not used to the shifting weights.
**Doctor Nande Salaren smiles at the dodge and takes the moment of Marcella being off-balanced to make a rush to shove her. If this were real, she'd go shoulder first, but because she wishes to preserve Marcella's health, she advances and pushes with her elbow instead.
**Marcella Soothesinger yelped out, as the woman approached. Her strike hit true, pushing at the centre at her chest as her feet being to reel. Though as she falls back she lets her body swing out in backlash. She stumbles and swings her left arm up, the twiggy dagger coming in an arc. It wasn't precise, it was messy and wild, and more of a detterent to being followed up on. Most likely it would bend and flexy harmlessly on her clothes, in real combat it'd only rip them and cause a superficial wound, the twiggy point being thrust gorily under the jaw.
**Doctor Nande Salaren is poked but ignores the small annoyance of the dagger-twig scratching her, and trains her spear at Marcella who's now another few feet away. "You did knick me," she says, looking down at Marcella still.
**Marcella Soothesinger sighs, panting roughly as her shoulders remained collapsed as she took more of an orthodox boxing stance, her 'shortsword' covering her chest and neck, while her dager obscured her gut. He feet shuffle forward, returning to her original stance from a distance away, eyes focusing on the 'point' towards her. Quite and composed. She hadn't noticed the Beastkin yet.
**Doctor Nande Salaren pulls her arms back, as if readying to thrust her spear into Marcella, and then she stabs forward toward her uppre torso- but at the last second she raises her right arm (the arm on the back of the spear) and changes the direction of the spear to go for the gut as opposed to the breast, hoping to feign and trick Marcella into blocking in a different direction.
**Marcella Soothesinger kept her blades covering her body from her fencing stance, though tightly wrapped like a Boxer. As the thrust came she didn't try to block it, but isntead went for an evasion. Her right foot twisted, throwing her shoulder forward as her left foot moved right, to be alligned with her front foot, twisted herself off to the side as she attempted to shove and guide the spear with her 'shortsword' so it slid effortlessly through the air. Though the movement to her gut meant that the shove meant little. Her arm locking to stop herself as she reared back for the push. With her Dagger she provided only the briefest of motions she had time to, clinking off the 'spear' tip to wobble and mis-align her strike a minute amount. But it was just a bendy twig, so it fails. Scraping along her side. If it was a real weapon the woman would now have quite the nasty wound. Definitely not superficial, but probably not life threatening if treated post-haste. As momentum carries Nande's spear strike to completion she would attempt to grab at the shaft, considering her Dagger Twig was now broken.
**Doctor Nande Salaren lets go of her spear, hoping it'll confuse Marcella to be holding a spear backwards, and attempts a grapple. She lunges forward with her arms outstretched, and attempts to grab Marcella's arms/wrist area to immobilize her striking, and also attempts to push her back and trip her.
**Marcella Soothesinger didn't allow the motion to end, following up from her grab, as soon as she held onto it it was wrapped under armpit for stability...of course that was if she was holding it. Instead it wobbles without guidance of another two arms. As the woman begins to close the gap, she curdely turns her bodies, using hips and lumbar to turn her body, swinging at an arc at her waist as a ward to stop her approaching.
**Doctor Nande Salaren is hit with her spear shaft and realizes how vulnerable she is, Marcella likely about to swipe her down with her sword. She backs up immediately, "I forfeit, you have the upper hand, I'd rather spare getting slapped." she admits.

*Herbalism Studies* (teaching Emily Truthcaller as well)

Doctor Nande Salaren says "You can find herbs nearly anywhere, but I enjoy going to spots with lots of moss and undergrowth, because I have to do less digging through branches and whatnot."
**Doctor Nande Salaren kneels at the base of the rock, and with bare hands, she begins to move ferns and small weeds around, searching between for flowers and herbs that she's familiar with. She's specifically looking for the white petals of peacebloom, and is sure to investigate anything that fits the bill.
**Doctor Nande Salaren pulls up a small white flower, "This is Peacebloom." it's got white petals, a yellow center, and looks like a pretty standard flower. "It's got healing properties that are easy to extract and be used as a salve or put into a potion."
**Doctor Nande Salaren smiles and uses her bare hands to loosen the dirt around the roots of a group of Peacebloom, carefully placing them into her pouch.
**Doctor Nande Salaren sets a pot of water on a small firepit next to her. "First, start some water." and she places all the flowers into the mortar and picks up the pestle, "And then grind it into a fine paste." which she does, it takes less than a couple of minutes. "This paste can be used as a healing salve, potent. Not very edible though, it digests slowly." she comments, pulling out a trio of vials, corks, and a funnel. She scraps equal amounts of salve into each vial, and uses the funnel to get hot water into the vial, which instantly begins to turn into a pink water on contact with the paste. She also sprinkles some sugar into the potions, "For flavor. Don't want to be gagging on a potion when you're bleeding out." she comments, corking the vials and shaking them until the paste is no longer visibly solid and the potions take on their expected color.