[More like the kid--this has to be a kid--is inexperienced. If there had been any real intent behind that question, xenophobic too perhaps, but it doesn't sound like it. This will make it the second time that inexperience has cropped up in conversation since arrival now. It's interesting, how that seems to work. Hatred of other species by humans is, shamefully, fairly common back home, but inexperience is rarer.
All said and done, he finds himself more bemused by the question than anything.]
I am human, yes, but not everyone in my Order is. And I'm not sure it's a sword in the way you're thinking.
[Though the same principles still apply. The Order itself tends to frown on weaponry that doesn't belong to them exclusively, but it's not as if he doesn't understand what a standard blade is.]
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All said and done, he finds himself more bemused by the question than anything.]
I am human, yes, but not everyone in my Order is. And I'm not sure it's a sword in the way you're thinking.
[Though the same principles still apply. The Order itself tends to frown on weaponry that doesn't belong to them exclusively, but it's not as if he doesn't understand what a standard blade is.]