βMy daughter once told me a storyβ¦β
Duck, dodge, swing. Duck, dodge, swing.
This was the pattern of that Elfessβ movements within her basement, the bag of sand hung from one of the supports hanging and swaying with every heavy impact it endured. Sweat rolled from her face, exhausted breaths emergent from chapped lips with every shuffle of her training clothes, tattered and frayed from years of use without care. The majority of her dining room had been brushed aside, tables and chairs stacked against the wall to make way for her bouts with the inanimate sack.