Tao lifted his other hand, fingers brushing over the mark he'd just made. The heat of it beating in time to his heart through Tao's fingers. "Hmm." was his only remark before he brought one foot back to brace his weight and shifted the handle back to his palm again. Shorter movements this time, more with the wrist then arm, he made an almost weaving motion. The wood moving in a figure 8 as he beat a staccato along Riley's sides. While the pattern did not break he didn't leave one spot along his ribs free and he did not stay on one side. He would work along the left side for a minute then a single hit to the right, and back again, careful not to build a pattern of which side he hit when so he could not settle into the pattern of the hits.
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