"Good, you'd be shit at it. It takes years to learn and there's not space in my smithy for someone as big as you're going to get," she says. He has to find his own way, regardless of what she thinks would be better for him. Regardless if it means going and getting himself killed, she doesn't have the right to decide for people. "Not without pushing someone out, and they wouldn't appreciate that."
They really wouldn't. If she's too old to go fight she's too old to make enemies of friends. That's always exhausting and much worse than ending up with normal enemies.
Guts has enough brains to take the question seriously, at least. She scratches under her throat, grimacing a little as her nails encounter a bristle.
"A bear's fat and hide are thick enough to be a kind of armor. It absorbs blunt impact well and can foul up and tangle a blade. 'S why people hunting bears usually bring spears." And why she'd told him to stab it. Lashan's sword has enchantments on it to keep it from sticking in a body and to preserve its edge, and that had made some difference. "If you can thrust fast enough with that steelbride - well, that's not a tactic I'd expect anyone else to use, but you're not anyone else. Might work."
Behind her the Sisters wrestle the big sword back into the fire to reheat. This weather is making the metal cool fast enough that they can't work for as long at a stretch as the other day ago. "Don't worry, you'll have it. It's too late now to break it into scrap. This is a learning experience. We're too used to ploughs and shortswords."
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They really wouldn't. If she's too old to go fight she's too old to make enemies of friends. That's always exhausting and much worse than ending up with normal enemies.
Guts has enough brains to take the question seriously, at least. She scratches under her throat, grimacing a little as her nails encounter a bristle.
"A bear's fat and hide are thick enough to be a kind of armor. It absorbs blunt impact well and can foul up and tangle a blade. 'S why people hunting bears usually bring spears." And why she'd told him to stab it. Lashan's sword has enchantments on it to keep it from sticking in a body and to preserve its edge, and that had made some difference. "If you can thrust fast enough with that steelbride - well, that's not a tactic I'd expect anyone else to use, but you're not anyone else. Might work."
Behind her the Sisters wrestle the big sword back into the fire to reheat. This weather is making the metal cool fast enough that they can't work for as long at a stretch as the other day ago. "Don't worry, you'll have it. It's too late now to break it into scrap. This is a learning experience. We're too used to ploughs and shortswords."