((Ack, sorry for the long wait!))

Aziraphale had noticed that he always seemed to be the one who backed off and put distance between them, so this time, he advanced suddenly with a flurry of rapid cuts and stood his ground, forcing Kira to fight him at close range. It was more difficult, he'd always found, to battle someone when you were looking directly into their face, and not just because of the way it restricted one's range of movement.