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Best Defence, Thursday

Today, the class would find themselves in the Danger Shop facing no one but Cassandra. Cass had her arms crossed and one eyebrow raised. "Your teacher cannot be here today due to... reasons, she said."

Rather it had been something about a film and a woman punching things that Cassandra had barely understood, but whatever.

"You joined this class to hit things," she said, "So today, we will hit things. Since there is no better teacher but experience, I have decided to let you have some. Find a creature. Hit it. Kill it, if you must. But incapacitate it somehow."

A pause.

"That is all. Do not look at me, I am not in the business of inspiring speeches."

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Hitting something.

Peebee

Jason Lee Scott

You could always incapacitate that, if you can catch it.

Peebee just eyed the squirrel from a distance for a little while.

"You're still creepy," she informed it, "and I maybe still have a grudge about being squirrelnapped the other week, but this seems like it would be an extreme reaction."

If it was person-sized, that might have been a different story, but then again if it was person-sized it probably would have been a lot easier to catch.

There is a small group of scouts in light armor scattered across the hilly landscape. You could punch one of them.

It's about the size of a human, but it looks like a gremlin. It does not have any venom.

You can punch that.

Oh, come on. Cassandra will judge you for this.

"I did not put that into this simulation," Cassandra muttered, of the bear. "Ugh."

"What is everyone's obsession with my punching bears?" she can be heard to mutter.

"Okay, I have to know, what is it with you and the bear-punching?" Of course Peebee was curious. Of course she was. "I'm not judging, just -- giant furry balls of teeth and claws, right? Where did that come from?"

"I do not have an it with the bear-punching," Cassandra said, dryly and with a hint of irritation. "Except that people continue to insist that I punch them, or put them in my path."

People like Cara. Ahem.

"I have to hand it to you, it's impressive," Peebee said, apparently unperturbed by any irritation. "I mean, sure, it's one of those things that seems like a terrible idea at first glance, but. Can't really blame anyone for wanting to see it happen."

"Our bears are very aggresssive," said Cassandra.

Still dryly.

"And see, that's where I'd be taking shots at them from a distance," Peebee said. Still unperturbed. "Not right up in their snarly, bitey faces. So for real? That's pretty awesome. Even if you don't do it as often as people seem to want you to."

"I am not an archer or a rogue, I am a warrior," Cassandra said, cocking her head curiously. "Why would I take potshots from a distance if the bear is coming at me, and I have my fists?"

"Exactly." Peebee. Don't do the finger guns thing at people, it's goofy. "You do that, I'd be the one hiding behind you and tossing shit at it."

"You and almost everybody else in the world," Cassandra sighed.

(She was going to think of Peebee when she met Sera.)

... Yeah, that was a meeting that never needed to happen. It would be a feedback loop of terrible troublemaking ideas.

"And see, that's how you know you'll always be appreciated," Peebee said cheerfully. "Though you really could loosen up a little bit once in a while. It's fun, honest."

Peebee. No.

(Also, for the record, someday when she was in the back of the Nomad with Cora, snarking like she wasn't perfectly aware of how Ryder kept driving over cliffs, don't think she wouldn't throw in a few unexplained references to bear punching just to be a pain in the ass.)

Cassandra rolled her eyes with single-minded intensity.

"No," she said. "Go back to work."

Oh, Peebee was already on her way!

Just not without making a silly face at Cassandra before she skipped off.

La!

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