She nods. Learn the style, you start to see patterns emerge. Of course, here it's a bit more of a problem - but there's only so many ways a body can move. Handle things right, you can limit the options...and improve your odds.

She shrugs a bit at his last.

I don't like how it is, but it's what it is. And in the thick of battle...it happens quickly.

She's known the push of the line - the crash of armies against each other. It's never pretty. And it's usually very quick. You don't need to see many battlefields to learn that 'glory' is a fiction.