Lin continued. "When I teach you combat techniques, your body automatically overcorrects and finds ways to make them slightly more efficient. You improve the speed, the power, the economy of movement in almost imperceptible ways... but they're there, small corrections accumulating more and more every day."
"And that's bad?"
"For combat, no... On the contrary. But for noble protocol, I suppose yes," Lin had smiled with something like sympathy. "Those positions they're trying to teach you aren't efficient. They're not natural. They're ceremonial. I think your body rejects them because they go against almost everything it considers balance and efficiency."
And she was right. Ren could copy Lin's combat techniques without problem, simplifying and improving them in the process without even realizing it. His body was a learning machine when it came to fighting, absorbing and optimizing with frightening speed.
