Sandstorms and rickety carriages were something Sifu was used to. She always thought those experiences could prepare her for the great blue sea. The only other time she'd felt so wrong in her life was the time before deciding to become a hunter. Rain and rocking ships were different beasts entirely. As such, Sifu had spent much of her voyage on the deck itself. If everything she'd heard about Alcoria was true, there was no point trying to hide herself under decks or roofs. It was best to acclimate herself to where she'd be living. Her arms were numb, her legs had done a marvelous job at not keeping her upright as the ship rocked back and forth, and the rather basic iron switchaxe she'd been carrying around felt all the heavier. This was what she'd be hunting in?
That was a challenge she'd accept any day. She'd have to be able to hunt anywhere in order to be the best, and something so opposite of her desert home was as fine a starting point as any. Because of her decision to stay above deck - something the sailor sent to collect her found to be pretty stupid - finding her wasn't tough, and she was the first to be met with a pro. This woman was her future. Sifu tried to mimic her stance, if only to keep herself on her feet for more than a few seconds at a time, but it simply wasn't working out. She'd have to figure out her own way. But for now, she had bigger things on her mind.
"Prepare to jump!"
"JUMP!?"
"Jump now, if you want to survive! This is your entrance exam, newbies!"
"Ah...so this is where it ends for me..."
Tch. Sifu, for one, knew there was no way she'd be able to make that sort of jump. Especially not with the kind of distance that hunter had managed. Not on this rocking ship, not when her legs were cold from the wind and rain, and definitely not with her switchaxe weighing her down. But coming all this way, just to quit at the front door? "You're here to learn how to rhunt monsters, and you're afraid of a jump!?" Sifu readied her switchaxe. If she was facing him directly, it wouldn't be hard to believe Sifu was ready to lop this boy's head clean off his shoulders. As if she were chasing down a monster instead of a dock, Sifu charged forward, leaping off the ship as she roared "If you can't find a way, carve one yourself!" That was what it meant to be a human! And so, in that human spirit, Sifu swung her weapon forward, lodging it into a beam holding the dock up, dangling precariously from her switchaxe.
And then she started climbing the weapon. Up, until she got a hand down on the dock's wooden surface, before pulling her switchaxe out of the beam and hoisting it up, followed by the rest of her body. She still didn't like the wind, rain, and hail against her body, but it was nice to be back on something that wasn't a boat. Sifu rolled over onto her back, stopping to catch her breath after the improvised feat of acrobatics. Once she got up to her feet, she walked the rest of the way, before nodding at the hunter, brushing some soaked hair out of her eyes. "Take it that counts as a pass?"
"Don't get too cocky, runt." The Hunter blurted, not even giving the girl a glance. "You might be the best of this bunch, but that ain't sayin' much. This is where the real test begins."
Runt? But Sifu was taller than those other three, right? People usually commented she was unusually tall for a woman, even. She tossed the thought aside. If this was where the real test started, Sifu was ready to tackle whatever it'd take.