Tethered: Beasts of Different Blood

The river is a ribbon of living turquoise, boldly flowing amid the green of the forest that surrounded the guild of Galdrabók. No matter the chatter of the trees it is steady, welcoming, and refreshing, offering up its cool waters to tired mages who find their way to its bed. On quiet days it can be heard whispering its wisdom, always talking, speaking the wisdom of the water to anyone who treasures its musical words. And as the sun filters through the trees around them, the river prepares to take down the events that will transpire between the two mages around it, their two masculine forms standing among the tree's applause as the wind rustles the leaves around them.

Ebisu Zakat notes that the forest holds trees of gargantuan size, but that the clearing that the river has made makes the trees almost feel like a wall around them. He sees that there is a raged bridge that crosses the flowing water, and across that bridge is his opponent for this round, a wolf with whom he has gotten to know during his time in these trials. It is funny to Eibsu that only a few days ago they had worked together to save a town, and now they are here to fight one another and prove their strength once more. But these guildmates are still connected, in a rather literal sense at that. Ebisu looks down at his left wrist, tugging on the rope that has been fasted to him, recalling his guildmaster's words that the rope could neither conduct magic nor be cut. The most tricky part was that each passing round of the fight, the rope would shrink one foot, giving them each around 32 moves before they found themselves attached at the wrist to one another.

Ebisu saw that there was some slack in the rope with their current positions, and so Ebisu began to back up into the thickness of the forest, hiding himself behind a tree while emitting some magical energy to make his first move of this round and keep a snake in the grass for the possibilities to come. Although with the rope pulled to its make, it wasn't like his position behind the large girth of the tree was all that hidden, as any gradeschooler could trace the rope to find him, but Ebisu wanted to take advantage of the space while he could. Using his left hand, Ebisu used his Wire Magic to pull forth a wire from the attachment on his glove, using the wire to encircle the rope around him and slowly trace its way down the length of the rope to give him more control over the object. It may not conduct magic, but that doesn't mean I can't move it by outside forces. Ebisu thought as his wire was making its way down the rope. When it was about halfway down the rope Eibsu called out to his opponent from behind the tree. "Well I am eager to see how you fight Wolfy, let's hope you didn't show your whole hand on that last part of the trial we did together. Would be a shame if you did... although I guess that would make it an easier win on my part." He taunted, always eager to get inside his opponents head. "If that's the case, I guess I will give you the first attack. Wouldn't be very nice of me to beat someone without giving them a chance to fight back, you know?"