There we go! Kurt lets out a quick laugh and begins the necessary footwork for back-tracking. It's all fairly light, for the moment, but he knows he'll have to pull something spectacular off to get the best of her.

That was the slight bummer about fighting Scatty. She was supernaturally good in speed and had been doing this way longer than he had. She'd likely be wearing kit gloves the entirety of the match, which... Sparks both curiosity (how would she fight, uninhibited) and a call to his secret ego (maybe he could beat her, anyway). But that is neither here nor there. He'd focus on now, which is parrying and waiting for the space to lunge again.

But he doesn't pull himself adequately from distraction; let's blame it on that. He misses a beat, turns out too much, and her foil hits his right side. "Ach!"