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[krasnayapautina]

[A woman appears on the network's video feed. She has her medium-length red hair tied back in a ponytail.]

For the many of you I haven't yet met: hi, I'm Natasha Romanoff.

I've been here for a few weeks now, and I know we have a lot going on right now, and probably more of us are - rightfully - antsy and-slash-or pissed, but I have a simple inquiry for everyone today: I could use a sparring partner or ten. Anyone else? Whether you want to blow off some steam about our current situation, or you just want to keep skills sharp, or so on.

Interested parties are free to contact me now, or later. I'll be around, obviously.

[She's not even adding a disclaimer that she's not superpowered, and/or that she only wants responders who are also not superpowered -- she can be a decent match for many with superpowers. Certainly not all the time (she has very fresh memories of being telekinetically tossed several feet and against a truck back home, and she lived, so it's fine ok), though. But she'll take her chances -- that's part of the challenge.]

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[kuekuatsu]

Not in my habit to punch ladies, but I wouldn't mind stretching a bit.

[Logan figures out that if she's offering, it's because she can hold her own. Plus, all of this idleness is getting on his nerve. Training might help.]

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[krasnayapautina]

"Not in the habit" -- what, do you think you might need to get out some bandages again here so soon?

[The more playful tone she uses and the smile that accompanies it give away that she's mostly messing with him in that. She does that; she's kind of a troll sometimes -- just call her Natasha Troll-manoff.

On a more serious note: ]

As long as you don't hold back too much, I won't either.

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[kuekuatsu]

[Logan chuckles lightly at that, instantly catching on her messing with him.]

Next I go near bandages, it won't be for me. [Why yes, he knows that sound very smug of him, and he's not taking it back, since it's the truth. After all, with his healing factor back, bandages are useless to him. Although...

Logan's lips curls into a slightly wolvish smile:]

Or I might ask just to see you reach in your shirt again. [Why yes, he saw that. Troll-manoff vs Troll-verine

That makes him tilts his head to one side:]

We'll see about that.

[He can give her a good fight, but he will have to hold back so he doesn't kill her. There's not much of a choice when punch someone is the equivalent of them running into a concrete wall, and then some.]

[krasnayapautina]

[So smug but so accurate.]

Hmm. That could be a dangerous request. I could pull out a bottle of soda, or it could be a weapon -- you never know. [It's highly unlikely she could or would hide a bottle of soda in her shirt, but now that she's said it, she kind of wants to try it. For science.] Maybe we ought to just make a no shirts rule. [(She can show up in a bra and pants, it's fine.)

A slightly raised eyebrow and the kind of smile that is a small one holding back a wider one. They are such trolls, yes - both of them. A+.]

[Well, as for the last part, she might appreciate that holding back too if she knew just how strong he is at full strength. She likes not being in a million pieces.]

[kuekuatsu]

[Okay, that actually makes him chuckle slightly]

Now, that I would want to see done.

[Logan raises an eyebrow slowly.]

Wouldn't that be too unfair? For you, I mean. [Although, the amused look he gives her makes it clear that having to fight her half naked would be mainly distracting to him. She's a gorgeous woman, and he has a weakness for red hair.

She's too pretty to be in a million pieces anyway.]

[krasnayapautina]

Yeah that'd be terrible because you might do something like go shirtless too. [The sarcasm in that is heavy, and a smirk twitches at her lips.] And then we can distract everyone else, too. [She almost says that with a straight face, but it's Too Much and she fails. Completely. As that smirk turns into another wide smile.]