Muddle✔

HARDwork

Rivi's pov:

'C-coach' I say gulping ,forwarding the cane.

"Stand on your right toes, left leg in the air."

'Yes coach.' I assume the position.

He swishes the cane really hard besides my feet making a really terrifying sound.

I am shaking already!!

He balances the cane on my left foot.

What is he trying to do exactly?

"Don't let the cane fall."

'Yes coach'

I can see the cane shaking with my shaking feet.

I am honestly scared right now.

After about hardly 1 minutes he asks me put the cane down , and stand straight.

I follow , and he picks up the cane off the the ground.

I close my eyes scared.

*swish*

I flinch and jump back slightly .
But yet again he had hit the ground besides me and not my feet.

I open my eyes, to meet his passive expression.

What is he trying to do?

"Go put it back"

Yes coach?
'Yes coach'

I lock the dreaded weapon in the cupboard and go back to him.

He look at me with a passive, but not stern face.

"Sit" he says while sitting on the ground cross legged .

What?
I look at him confused.

He gesture me with his head nod.

So I copy him and sit down.

"So, here is the thing" he says while taking a glance at his phone keeping it back on the bench behind him and giving me his attention again.

"At every point there are options there are possibilities. "
I keep looking at him intently ,trying to get a deeper insight of his words.

"You have seen me caning the cadets, and the second i asked you to get the cane with an angry face , you joined all the dots.
And that was exactly what I wanted you to think."
He took a second's pause.

"And that's where you get prone to losing" he says shrugging.

"We have been practising ,fake jabs ,fake attacks to distract the opponent.
Because faking the moves is a part of the game.
And if you work how your opponent wants you to, what's left in the game.
You are following?"

'Yes coach'

"Trust me I Don't have time to waste.
All this that I just did wasn't for fun.
You needed to know how much rest of the options get masked if you just consider one of the options as fate.

Calm down, you are yet to work more on you fright, flight ,fight reflex.

Alright?"

'Yes coach'i say nodding.

"Now that being said, I guess you got your rest?
Now you can get on to your assigned task.
And the mess isn't going to be empty, so I Don't know what and how will you do but you are not to stop unless you don't complete the task. And you may lose the chair pose once you are out of mess.
Get up." He says getting up himself.