[The meaning is clear. Or rather: the shared understanding is clear. They are here to fight for their lives. The fight didn't end with the escape. For as long as they would live, there would be more fights. Lexa has only ever known a life of war, and she had just stepped onto a path where she had a chance for something else when she had come here.
She'll never know what that was truly like. She can only hope that her efforts to make that possible for her people didn't go in vain.
(Hope is a funny, fragile thing when it comes to Lexa. She doesn't really believe in its existence, not really.)
But people can make hopes reality by taking charge of the life in front of them.]
Much of this is repetition at first. Much of it is set that way so that you don't injure yourself while fighting another. You'll learn what you can manage in time. [The practice blades are also lighter, easier to manage, and she shifts her own back up, placing her left hand behind her back. The finer methods of fencing hadn't passed down to her people (that would have been impossible), but there are simply things that would be passed among any culture.]
What you can learn here can be applied to a smaller blade. If it seems that will suit you better, we'll proceed there. [But it's clear that she's undertaking this as her responsibility. To Lexa, it's a duty, and an important one. She can't just trot around acting like she knows everything. Being a leader (no matter how much she isn't one here—which is a reality she's reluctant to recognize) comes with actions as well as words.It comes with obligations, and this is one she takes on gladly.]
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She'll never know what that was truly like. She can only hope that her efforts to make that possible for her people didn't go in vain.
(Hope is a funny, fragile thing when it comes to Lexa. She doesn't really believe in its existence, not really.)
But people can make hopes reality by taking charge of the life in front of them.]
Much of this is repetition at first. Much of it is set that way so that you don't injure yourself while fighting another. You'll learn what you can manage in time. [The practice blades are also lighter, easier to manage, and she shifts her own back up, placing her left hand behind her back. The finer methods of fencing hadn't passed down to her people (that would have been impossible), but there are simply things that would be passed among any culture.]
What you can learn here can be applied to a smaller blade. If it seems that will suit you better, we'll proceed there. [But it's clear that she's undertaking this as her responsibility. To Lexa, it's a duty, and an important one. She can't just trot around acting like she knows everything. Being a leader (no matter how much she isn't one here—which is a reality she's reluctant to recognize) comes with actions as well as words.It comes with obligations, and this is one she takes on gladly.]