"As many as I could. Mostly in Europe, I kept having to get my coaches to write to my school so I could take time off to travel to them. I did a lot of solo tournaments and shit, but my club had a team, too. Me and Sabine and Luna and Farah, I think we managed to get... fifth in Europe, for our age division? My best ranking solo was eighth in the same. I hate like, admitting it, but I fought better with them than I did on my own."

A shrug, but the fond smile on her face betrays her feelings on the matter.

"When you're fencing on a team, it's like, having to keep a bunch of plates spinning at once. You have to swap people out so nobody gets too tired, but some people are genuinely better at some parts of the sport than others. I got pulled in whenever the other team had someone with a really strong guard, because I was faster than the rest of my team, but I got swapped out if the other team had a really tactical fighter. It was nice, like... having a specific job, and only having to do that."