The situation hadn't deteriorated into something unmanageable yet — and the reason for that was two people who hadn't actually started fighting anything.
They were making rules.
Seraphine and Ira stood slightly apart from the main clash, weapons out, auras fully active, working through the terms of a competition that both of them had apparently decided was more immediately important than the battle unfolding around them. The suggestion had come from both sides simultaneously — which made sense, given that both of them were carrying a loss they wanted to address.
Seraphine had lost the previous sparring match against Ira. Ira had lost something else — not the fight, but the bet attached to it, the one that had resulted in her calling Seraphine big sister in front of Leon, which she was still quietly embarrassed about and intended to rectify as soon as possible.
