[It's not a bad hold, not a bad approach. There's a small voice in her head that recognizes that even as her attempts to get Parker to let go of her slide free. Deserves a kind of reward - clever, sliding past her, catching her where she was slow. It's progress and more tactical than anything else Parker's managed so far. Learning. This is the part where she stills and taps Parker's arm and Parker stops and Shepard says good job. Where they square off, where they start again.
She gets as far as the tap when Parker starts to wail on her kidneys. Drives a sharp bolt of pain through her, hot metal, licking the end of a battery pain taste in her mouth. Shepard's hand snaps shut on her arm reflexively, vice grip. Crushing. One leg wobbling out under the weight and the surge of agony that comes with the second blow, the third.
If this wasn't practice, she's throw herself backward. Use all her bulk, hope she could knock Parker's head on the half pipe. Break her ribs. Dead drop, all her weight. But that's not an option. Instead Shepard leans forward, curling against the oppressive weight on her shoulders and the heat of pain in her side. Tries to do it fast enough to unseat Parker's grip, to send her sliding up - over her head, maybe. At least far enough to catch her breath.]
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She gets as far as the tap when Parker starts to wail on her kidneys. Drives a sharp bolt of pain through her, hot metal, licking the end of a battery pain taste in her mouth. Shepard's hand snaps shut on her arm reflexively, vice grip. Crushing. One leg wobbling out under the weight and the surge of agony that comes with the second blow, the third.
If this wasn't practice, she's throw herself backward. Use all her bulk, hope she could knock Parker's head on the half pipe. Break her ribs. Dead drop, all her weight. But that's not an option. Instead Shepard leans forward, curling against the oppressive weight on her shoulders and the heat of pain in her side. Tries to do it fast enough to unseat Parker's grip, to send her sliding up - over her head, maybe. At least far enough to catch her breath.]