If this is an illicit attempt to pay me for my generosity--
( in a tone of slight warning, but she accepts the scabbard - turning it in her hands with enough familiarity that she must have handled weapons in the past, for all that she never did so with an eye to using them. She knows well enough their maintenance, when there were few enough hands that hers had been obliged to put themselves to new tasks.
That she isn't intimidated by a weapon in her hands is a good beginning. )
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( in a tone of slight warning, but she accepts the scabbard - turning it in her hands with enough familiarity that she must have handled weapons in the past, for all that she never did so with an eye to using them. She knows well enough their maintenance, when there were few enough hands that hers had been obliged to put themselves to new tasks.
That she isn't intimidated by a weapon in her hands is a good beginning. )