by Nailah Weaver » Wed May 02, 2018 6:24 pm
Her leg might still be pretty busted up, but Nailah feels like the rest of her is just fine. Her journal said she'd been in the hospital but her shoulder feels fine which makes it hard to judge how bad her injuries had been. What she really wants to do is fly but she has to admit that it might not be the best idea to risk plummeting out of the sky or messing up the landing. She doesn't have to use her power to know that much. But at the same time she feels restless and this morning while reading through her journal she's gotten an idea stuck in her head that she wants to try. Muscle memory. She might still be able to improve and fight if she can teach her body what to do even if she can't consciously remember anything new. It'll be a slow process, which only makes her want to get started more.
And so she limps her way into the rec center and towards the wooden martial arts dummy. She props up her phone where she can see it and sets it to show a series of exercises on a loop. She finds a stance that works with her cast, which is to say it only hurts a little bit, and starts going through the motions shown on her phone. Punch, block, grab, punch, block, repeat. Without the perfect deja-vu steps from her power it's clumsy, but it reminds her of her first couple training sessions with Onyx and for a while things feel okay as she loses herself in the steady knock of knuckles and lower-arms against wood.
((open))