"If you do not mind getting wet," Hadama affirmed solemnly, but there was laughter in his eyes at Melita's eagerness to learn ocean combat. He was no master by any means, but he thought he remembered enough basics to pass along to another - while he worked to regain skills not used since boyhood.
Away the honeybee went, while Hadama swam a little ways down to a stall near the canal's edge and purchased some scraps of leather and cloth. When she returned and offered the shaft of the weapon he reached up for it and tested the heft of it. Content, he proceeded to wrap the sharp tines with the leather, blunting it for a spar.
"Have you fought in water before?" he asked, swimming back a small distance to make room for her in the canal.
Away the honeybee went, while Hadama swam a little ways down to a stall near the canal's edge and purchased some scraps of leather and cloth. When she returned and offered the shaft of the weapon he reached up for it and tested the heft of it. Content, he proceeded to wrap the sharp tines with the leather, blunting it for a spar.
"Have you fought in water before?" he asked, swimming back a small distance to make room for her in the canal.
