[Spec -Versus- Blanka]

Quite. Spec should learn to be more concise and use less flowery language. Should also keep her audience in mind, I suppose. If Blank actively listened to that whole speech, she's a bigger attention span than me!

Projectile weaponry! Boo! Dishonor, dishonor, dishonor! No self-respecting knight would ever deign to hurl of any sort of missile at his/her/its worthy opponent!

The throwing knife flung at Spec's knee doesn't register a hit because the second Blank's tail hurtles forward with the alarming speed, the agile Spec dive-rolls to the left, landing (but not stopping) in a crouched stance before she seamlessly transfers into a forward sprint and begins to close the distance between herself and Blank. She had anticipated that Blank would open with her net gun, not throwing knives, but the reaction should prove appropriate given the attack anyway. So fast is she that, if one were to blink, she would be a number of feet in front of where their eyes last spotted her with abnormally large clouds of dust and ruts in the dirt as the two lone traces of her passing. It is probably worth mentioning that she is hugging the arena wall, if only to aid in the visualization of the scene and for mental bookkeeping.