If this conversation was happening with someone else, Bruce might laugh lazily and say he's got a regular appointment with booty bootcamp. But they're past the point of dismissive excuses here. There are only so many ways he can explain the injuries across his face, the bruises and broken bones.
Bruce has been trained to fight, as it happens. By a few different tutors and in a few different styles. He isn't satisfied only because there's still plenty to learn, but perhaps also because it was never going to be in his nature to let something like the presumption of death stop him from self-development. The trouble is that if he wanted to diversify his skillset, he'd need to find people here capable of teaching him, untroubled by the thought of injuring someone they perceive to be a child, and capable of discretion. Thus far, he's found it to be a very small sampling. Bruce watches him, the careful once-over he's given, and considers his options. The best answers, he's found, give no more and no less than exactly what's necessary.
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Bruce has been trained to fight, as it happens. By a few different tutors and in a few different styles. He isn't satisfied only because there's still plenty to learn, but perhaps also because it was never going to be in his nature to let something like the presumption of death stop him from self-development. The trouble is that if he wanted to diversify his skillset, he'd need to find people here capable of teaching him, untroubled by the thought of injuring someone they perceive to be a child, and capable of discretion. Thus far, he's found it to be a very small sampling. Bruce watches him, the careful once-over he's given, and considers his options. The best answers, he's found, give no more and no less than exactly what's necessary.
"Some."