Angerona will make sure to win, in return. 

When it comes time for the tournament the next day, Phoedelia, for one, is very excited.

Phae is keeping her excitement better contained, at least. 

Gideon's wearing her rapier (unfortunately, but this is a cavalier tournament). She's very much looking forward to this. (And she wants to scope out the Fifth House a bit more - figure out if she should let Abigail look at her sword, mostly.)

Luckily for her, the Fifth is in attendance, as are their teenage shadows the Fourth. The Seventh sits in a chair by the wall, loomed over by her cavalier, stoic as ever. The Second are involved in chalking out the dueling square outline, with no doubt military precision. Teacher and the other two priests observe this process with interest.

...Gideon suddenly realizes she knows absolutely nothing about how the other Houses duel.

Once the Second are done, Phoedelia steps up to thank them and everyone else for coming, this'll be good for inter-House relations and blah blah blah, okay let's have some fun! First up, Marta the Second versus Jeannemary the Fourth!

The Second cavalier about faces and heads to the center line while the teenage Fourth cavalier also approaches. Magnus starts clapping for the young girl, and both she and her necro hiss at him in dismay.

"All right, ladies. Friendly match. To the touch, clavicle to sacrum, arms excepted. Call."

The Second draws her weapons, holding her rapier at her side and displaying her offhand, a dagger, across her chest. "Marta the Second."

Jeannemary mimics her movements, showing that she will also be using an offhand dagger. "Jeannemary the Fourth."

"Seven paces, then begin. Turn!"

Each of the duelists spin and take seven steps before turning once again to face each other, taking the measure of their opponent. Jeannemary moves first, a darting rush. Marta takes a neat step to evade, batting the girl's leading blade away and keeping her out of dagger range. She stays on the defensive as the teen presses the attack, seemingly anticipating her every move until Jeanne gets too flustered and leaves an opening which Marta uses to tap the point of her rapier into the Fourth's side.

"Match to the Second!" Phoe calls, and both fighters disengage. How about a round of applause!

"Good show, Jeanne!" Magnus calls, and she whines half-heartedly at him.

She claps too! Though: "Usually we do matches to the floor on the Ninth," she says in a friendly aside to whoever's standing closest. 

"That sounds a little aggressive," Palamedes says, raising her eyebrows.

"You haven't met our captain of the guard - I had to stay up for a whole minute to mercy before she'd let me represent the Ninth; she threatened to come herself otherwise, nevermind that she's well past eighty." Small laugh. "It's fun, though, and more like a real fight anyways."

Palamedes must never let Angerona and the Ninth be alone in a room together. Blood would paint the walls.

"I suppose so. Usually that kind of destructive training isn't positive-sum in expectation, so most avoid it."

"We'll see how well it worked for me, then."

Angerona is definitely eyeing her with interest. 

Exactly what she was worried about, yep.

"Round two!" Phoedelia calls. "Magnus the Fifth and Gideon the Ninth!"

She winks at Angerona. "Hope for round two," she says, before stepping into the ring and raising her chain against her chest. 

Magnus shows his dagger, and the duel starts like the last one.

Two things are made apparent to Gideon very quickly: one, she is much better with a rapier than he is, and two, he has no idea how to deal with her chain.

It takes her a second to get momentum - 

- A second he loses by hesitating, by eyeing her chain - 

She feints in, like she's going in with her rapier -