Beach Woes

Elyss huffs and shakes her head more wondering why Ulv would even test her like that in the first place. The redhead even wonders why she accepted such a thing back then either. She couldn’t quite remember what all was said then, but there is a small recollection of Ulv treating her more like a pet than a student or other person. Maybe this simply means there relationship has improved. It pretty much has no choice but to improve does it? It’s that, or it gets worse. Elyss is definitely charging forward, and it’s unclear if Ulv disliking her would cause her to truly stop her momentum. Ulv may realize that, and even though Elyss is a dummy, the woman doesn’t want to see Elyss fall to the anger they both share. Maybe… Elyss doesn’t know. She just knows she’s about to get some intense training; something she can feel her Zanpakuto getting excited over. That guy just wants any excuse for conflict and to grow stronger to reach their desires.

What Elyss soon got was better, but she felt it a bit scandalous still, but it’s no different than what she actually has on to be honest; covers a bit more around the midsection, and the shorts are nice. After a few, she’s dressed in this mixture of mixed martial arts and gymnastics gear; the tight black latex underneath mixed with white gym shorts and a loose white crop top. She finds herself stretching appearing near Ulv looking at the tea being made. That’s when conversation is started that has Elyss tilting her head a bit in thought.

“Oh, uh… I guess I have some friends. Everyone I’ve met seems to care a bit about my progress. Some are just expressive and quirky to be around. Though, I haven’t been around a lot of people lately. It’s just been me and him… This guy in my head. Looks like a skeleton. My Zanpakuto I guess. He’s a bit aggressive, but him and I seem to want to grow stronger together. He doesn’t like a lot of people though. I think he has a problem with people being stronger than him.”

She responds feeling her Zanpakuto grumbling at having his personality exposed so easily. Maybe if he wasn’t so blatant about how he feels about everyone, it wouldn't be so easy to recognize.

Elyss takes her tea and looks down at it before blowing and taking a sip looking over at Ulv curious about the intensity of what they’ll be doing together.

“So, about training. What will we be doing? I was wondering about learning how to fight like you, but I’ve also been thinking about finding a swordsman who could teach me how to dual wield since I, for some reason, have two swords.”

She takes another sip of her cup of tea actually enjoying how hot it is and how it stings her tongue a bit.

Elyss does blame her anger for her lack of ability to really get connected with another individual. It’s why she forced herself to be a distant individual. If she gets too close, she’s unsure if one day, she’ll accidentally harm a friend when something spurs her into an outrage. It’s why she created her cold cool persona to ward people off from around her and make them keep a respectable distance without coming off as hostile. Though, now, it’s starting to seem impossible to keep people away; especially considering how much stronger everyone is than her. At least, with these people around her, she feels she can actually let her true self show without harming them while growing stronger and learning to control herself.

“Ah, so… building a foundation?”

To be honest, she didn’t quite follow Ulv, but she wonders if Ulv just meant she’s going to be conditioning herself for a bit before the real training begins where she learns how to destroy buildings with a single punch or something like that. Then, jump ropes are brought out, and Elyss feels like she knows what’s about to happen next and nods before stretching out a bit and taking herself a pair of jump ropes.

“We should probably be outside instead of inside.”

She says shaking her head at Ulv’s antics before turning to leave outside where she flexes the rope a bit and starts doing jump ropes herself. So, she needs to control her jumps for max efficiency? Or something like that. Well, for now, she’ll just keep jumping rope with some experience about her. Obviously, she lost her expertise she had when alive, but it seems a ghost of how to do this stayed with her.

Situational awareness? Elyss just wanted to jump rope without having to worry about knocking anything over. She doesn’t want to break anything, but it seems Ulv wants her to bump into things to learn how to be aware of her surroundings at all times. Well, it seems arguing would be pointless seeing how she was practically dragged back into the room, so with that in mind, her eyes flick around here and there around the place to find a spot that seemed a bit open. This is going to be a bit tricky. She’s near the corner of the room with the wall to her back hoping that having nothing behind her would help a bit. It didn’t.

When she began, she found her rope smacking against the wall repeatedly causing it to go limp and fall to the ground before she could even get to 9 jumps. How annoying. Maybe it’s because she has the rope too stretched out. If she made it more compact, it’d take up less space. Though, that’d make it a bit harder to jump over it with it being smaller and having less room for mistakes. Ulv probably wants it a bit like that though.

“This is annoying.”

She finds herself mumbling before she starts skipping rope once more before her foot gets caught on the 5th jump causing her to stumble but caught herself before falling over into anything. She mumbles more and looks over to Ulv with a pissed expression. She doesn’t say anything and just returns to her spot and starts skipping once more focusing harder on not tripping herself with each hop stumbling and fumbling but seemingly getting a bit better slowly. Still, her frustration is evident on her face as each mistake pisses her off more and more.

“Okay? I’m peachy.”

She speaks in a hissed tone grinding her teeth a bit as she fails for the upteenth time feeling anger at such a simple task that is somehow infuriating her to no end. Yes. She felt the need to throw the rope or rip it into shreds. After Ulv’s little comment, she couldn’t help feeling the want to beat the other with the rope for making her have to do this in such an unsettling area for jumping rope in.

Still, she seemed determined to focus more on actually completing the task than taking out her anger in unhelpful ways. She’ll just use this frustration as inspiration to conquer this stupid rope that children enjoy for some odd reason.

With a huff, she begins once more skipping rope; this time doing so for a while without any mishap which caused her a feeling a triumph, but it’s a bit too soon to be getting a bit cocky because of a bit of success. Right then, both her feet got caught by the rock right at the toes causing her to whip forward and… WHAM! Her face slammed into the floor with enough power to cause the room to shiver a bit.

There is only a second of silence before she sits up and throws the jump ropes across the room with enough force to dent the wall before she rubs the red mark on her face from slamming it so hard on the floor. She sniffs lightly feeling herself getting a bit emotional from all the frustration and anger building up within her. She wants to maim someone, but there’s not anyone near to really harm except Ulv, but that’d prove pointless and simply be a way to exert her rage safely. It’s no good if what she beats doesn’t get injured in some way! So, her next best way of dealing with this sudden building anger is to… cry a bit and complain loudly.

“Stupid fucking rope!”

She yells out fighting back the oncoming tears and rising before picking up the still hot tea kettle and throws it at Ulv hoping the woman caught it but also wanting it to smash into her face for whatever reason.

“Don’t call me a child!”

She is quick to snarl at Ulv feeling herself growing a tad hotter due to that little comment. Yep. She’s pretty pissed off at her constant failure, and the pain thumping through her face is annoying. She huffs and takes a deep breath running her hands over her face.

“I… I didn’t mean to snap like that…”

She continues taking deep breaths to slowly start calming herself. That was so frustrating. It wasn’t the fact she kept messing up. It’s the fact that she hit her face so hard. This stinging isn’t help her mind think straight at all.

“I’d not like to know what you mean by spanking.”