Vena has a response to the question but it's made incomprehensible because after lighting some of the lamps she's peeled a hard-boiled egg and crammed the whole thing in her mouth. Whenever she's stolen food and has the chance she eats it as fast as possible before someone can take it from her. Despite herself she does have some misgivings about Guts drawing the sword and looks away.
Some of the girls yesterday had carried short swords almost exactly like this one, shorter than Lashan's old longsword. In the lamplight the live steel is faintly veined or marbled like woodgrain, a mark of the many small pieces of metal that went into making it without simply being melted completely together. It's very new, no chips or scratches in the blade, the leather-wrapped wood of the grip pristine. The materials are common and the ornamentation is minimal, including on the very new and beltless scabbard, but there's a certain moderately expensive quality to it.
He doesn't hold it for long enough to activate any of the particular effects, though those are meant to be hard to really pick up on. It's dangerous to call attention here by selling overtly magical items, though the affinities associated with Lashan's work do still compel higher prices from those who know about them.
"She's gonna sell twelve of those at a market in the fall," Vena says around a mouthful of sausage roll, glancing at the door as if expecting the old woman to have appeared in it. "Does it every year. These're the most expensive things we sell to anyone."
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Some of the girls yesterday had carried short swords almost exactly like this one, shorter than Lashan's old longsword. In the lamplight the live steel is faintly veined or marbled like woodgrain, a mark of the many small pieces of metal that went into making it without simply being melted completely together. It's very new, no chips or scratches in the blade, the leather-wrapped wood of the grip pristine. The materials are common and the ornamentation is minimal, including on the very new and beltless scabbard, but there's a certain moderately expensive quality to it.
He doesn't hold it for long enough to activate any of the particular effects, though those are meant to be hard to really pick up on. It's dangerous to call attention here by selling overtly magical items, though the affinities associated with Lashan's work do still compel higher prices from those who know about them.
"She's gonna sell twelve of those at a market in the fall," Vena says around a mouthful of sausage roll, glancing at the door as if expecting the old woman to have appeared in it. "Does it every year. These're the most expensive things we sell to anyone."