Not all that much slash nothing at all. I, uh, asked Erik the same question a couple days ago and he showed me some stuff, but I'm still- [ What he still is he doesn't know. He shrugs, finishes weakly: ] I'm pretty slow at this. It doesn't come very naturally to me.

[ That, at least, River should know. Any time he has fought back, physically, it has been in times of complete desperation, without technique or even particularly conscious thought. He still remembers the way River had moved when she'd been fighting Charlie, her grace and precision and intensity and violence. Ned knows that kind of skill will always be beyond his grasp, but perhaps she can teach him to at least be a bit less hapless and helpless. ]