title: Lannaireachd: Gaelic Swordsmanship
author: Christopher Thompson
description: Christopher Scott Thompson is the President of the Cateran Society, an organization devoted to researching and practicing the historic Highland martial arts. He is 32 years old, and lives in Portland, Maine.
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  “YOU’D MAKE A FOOL OF ME, WOULD YOU?”
  
  Lord St. Simon said furiously. “Diablillo!” He grabbed her hands as they
  lunged for his face, wrenching her arms above her head, grabbing her chin with
  his other hand, holding her head steady on the moss. “You’d serve me such a
  trick, would you? Let me tell you, mi muchacha, that it’ll take more than a
  devious bandit to get the better of me.”
  
  Tamsyn twisted her body sideways, but he swung himself over her, straddling
  her.
  
  “Espadachín!” she threw at him again. “I may be a bandit, but you’re a brute
  and a bully, Colonel. Let me up.”
  
  “No.”
  
  The simple negative stunned her. She stared up into his face that was now as
  calm and equable as if they were sitting in some drawing room. He looked
  positively comfortable.
  
  Her astonished silence lasted barely a second; then she launched a verbal
  assault of such richness and variety that the colonel’s jaw dropped. She moved
  seamlessly within three languages, and the insults and oaths would h