Dove watched him as he began to walk backwards down the path. She privately thought he would end up tripping over a root like that but maybe he knew this expanse well. After all, she knew the forest around her home pretty well due to years of it being the only place she was allowed to explore. And even then, sparingly for fear distant neighbors might somehow learn of her existence.

"I think I could," she said boldly. "I was trained in the art of the sword and it is much the same principle." Well, Robin had trained because it was a manly sport in her fathers eyes. But it wasn't like knowledge she had acquired just disappeared when her gender identity and appearance shifted.