I would be most indebted to you if you would, Warden.
( She sheathes the blade, and makes no immediate move to return it to him. Her own is on her person - always on her person, Marius long insisted, a habit she has not felt it necessary or prudent to break - and she turns very slightly from him, adjusts her bodice, produces it.
It is, as she says, a nonsense-looking thing to a professional: Lamorre lettering etched on the blade, the hilt elaborately set with sapphire and amethyst jewels that flatter her well...but that blade has bite, and even a glance would have told him so without her assurance that it never dulls. )
A bride gift, ( she says, so carefully removing from her voice any trace of bitterness that she removes any hint of warmth, too. )
no subject
( She sheathes the blade, and makes no immediate move to return it to him. Her own is on her person - always on her person, Marius long insisted, a habit she has not felt it necessary or prudent to break - and she turns very slightly from him, adjusts her bodice, produces it.
It is, as she says, a nonsense-looking thing to a professional: Lamorre lettering etched on the blade, the hilt elaborately set with sapphire and amethyst jewels that flatter her well...but that blade has bite, and even a glance would have told him so without her assurance that it never dulls. )
A bride gift, ( she says, so carefully removing from her voice any trace of bitterness that she removes any hint of warmth, too. )