[Ethlyn looks up sharply when Minato makes that suggestion. She's immediately ashamed--to be acting so fearfully of this thing that someone else is offering to take the burden of dealing with it away from her.
Admittedly, Minato is a grown man--no, what is she thinking, he's just a kid! He can't be picking up dangerous weapons up off the ground. She's the responsible adult, she's the one who's been married and has arranged practically the whole social life of the town since her poor husband passed away.]
No--no, I can handle it. I'll bring it to the blacksmith and they can decide what to do with it.
[Her hand closes around the hilt.
And then she gasps as the images flood her eyes--her ears, her nose. A man in black robes, evil magic streaming from his hands--a woman, her long silvery hair tangled as she grips her head and screams--and Ethlyn, struggling to rise from the ground, reaching out to them as the robed man draws a wicked sigil in the air and whisks himself and the other woman to the gods only know where.]
No--NO!
[The words echo in the vision--and they echo aloud as the neat cobblestones of Aldrip return.]
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Admittedly, Minato is a grown man--no, what is she thinking, he's just a kid! He can't be picking up dangerous weapons up off the ground. She's the responsible adult, she's the one who's been married and has arranged practically the whole social life of the town since her poor husband passed away.]
No--no, I can handle it. I'll bring it to the blacksmith and they can decide what to do with it.
[Her hand closes around the hilt.
And then she gasps as the images flood her eyes--her ears, her nose. A man in black robes, evil magic streaming from his hands--a woman, her long silvery hair tangled as she grips her head and screams--and Ethlyn, struggling to rise from the ground, reaching out to them as the robed man draws a wicked sigil in the air and whisks himself and the other woman to the gods only know where.]
No--NO!
[The words echo in the vision--and they echo aloud as the neat cobblestones of Aldrip return.]