Fifth Month— Dava, Day 4
"Straighten up, Syv." Verinia pressed her staff to her little sister's lower back, gently urging a change in posture. "Now proceed."
Syvia began to move once again, gliding through the air with the silk rope tied to her wrists. Her arms and hands swept around her body as if she were dancing with the longest sleeves and the rope followed along with her movements, striking the air in the way a viper would leap for its prey.
The sharp daggers tied to the ends of the rope glinted dangerously in the daylight, soaring and striking, soaring and striking what would be the most vital points of the mortal body with each movement of her arms.
The hed-fassan was a war dance from House Hellfryne's sister tribe, the Fed-ji. Unlike the Hellfryne mother tribe of the Hath-ji, who rode their gryffons into battle, the Fed-ji danced the hed-fassan.