Snippet #8096

After their battle, Avis had carried Toya back to the Montale estate, letting the maids fuss over himself and his brother and deal with their injuries. Most were worried for Toya's state, seeing as he was pretty much ready to pass out, but after Avis explained what he'd done - then they knew that they just had to let him rest. Toya slept for the rest of the day, while Avis had his shoulder seen to, the puncture from the rusty dagger having been patched up as best as possible. They had some ailment that reduced the pain from it, which definitely helped.
He was thinking about returning to the training room, but was advised not to, the others having wanted him to rest like his brother.

The next day, they did not see Gabriella at all either. The maids said that she was ill, and shouldn't be disturbed, so the boys continued with their training now that they both felt alot better. They even missed her appearing to go to the games. Either way, they continued to work hard, working on more ways of fighting an enemy as a team, rather than divide and conquer - the tactic that seemed to have worked so well in the previous match. Both brothers knew that it was definitely going to be harder the further into the games they got. But after that first match, the brothers seemed to have found a new confidence - that they might actually be able to make it to the end of the tournament, even if it was still early days at the moment.
Toya was going to need alot more work with his electricity though if they were going to get any further. He wasn't going to be able to use that kind of wave of energy in the middle of a match and keep fighting strong without more training with Gabriella.