Editor's Note: For the purposes of meshing incompatible canons, we will be assuming RWBY's well-trained professional combatants have some slight grasp of tactics and don't blatantly telegraph every single strike, neither of which is borne out in any way by the text.

Nora's not much of a tactician and she usually faces dangerous but not-too-bright creatures rather than hardened soldiers, but it doesn't take a sharp military mind to put together that her only advantage lies in Loken not knowing her capabilities...but he's got to realize she has something up her sleeve. Too bad Ruby's not here to hit her with a Lightning Dust round. That would tilt the playing field. She smirks at the thought, not caring what the expression might suggest to Loken.

Oh well, standing there staring at him isn't going to get anything done. Nora springs into the engagement, ready to exchange a strike against her Aura for a landing one on Loken.