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Date Posted: 04:13:03 12/12/01 Wed
Author: Isobel
Subject: A Pointed Discussion (of Swords)
In reply to: Rowan and Tristan 's message, "Talkin' with the ladies" on 22:55:54 12/11/01 Tue

Isobel looked up as Rowan spoke to her. “They’ll talk, but only if you know how to listen,” he said, grinning a rather forced grin. “Swords, I mean. Mine do. And Erlic’s, I think. He might have mentioned it a while back. Least I think he did, anyway.”

Isobel shook her head. "I know that there are such things... magical swords that speak. This," she held up her father's old sword. It was battered but she had kept the blade oiled and sharpened. It was not attractive, but it had served her well. "This is not one of those."

Her eyes slid along the blade down to the hilt, which was wrapped in leather that had once been brown and tooled with an intricate design, but was now worn smooth and black by years of handling. There was a nick in the pommel where her father had once hammered a spike into the shell of a giant scarab in the desert. A darker spot on the wrapping of the hilt was the remnant of a self-styled "king" who had brutally oppressed his "followers". Her father had put an end to the man's miserable existence. A small notch in the blade marked the passing of the Great Gryphon of Murada - the notch made when the blade impacted the terrible beast's skull as it bit almost through her father's leg. He had then rammed the blade into its breast and slain the beast. He used to tell her these tales and many others when she was a small girl at his knee. She ran her finger lightly over the notch and sighed.

She looked back up at Rowan. "So does your sword have secrets, Isobel?" He asked her as he moved closer. She returned his secretive smile and said quietly, "If it does, mi amigo, they are secret even from me." For now, she added silently to herself.

She shook off her strange mood and sheathed her father's sword. "What do your swords say, Senor Rowan, when they speak to you?" she asked him curiously. Perhaps, she considered, her sword did not speak because she did not know how to listen.

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