He stiffened at that. "I assure you, I'm quite sober," he said. "In fact if there's a drop of alcohol on this Isle that's not of the sort meant only for Professor Yen Sid's chemical concoctions, I've yet to find it."
"Tell me, girl, have you ever wielded a polearm in earnest, when it was all that stood between you and the jaws of a beast, or the blade of an enemy? Judging by your arms, I sincerely doubt it. What I know of lancework I've learned by living and breathing the art for nearly as long as you've been alive at all. I know that such things as you just described are foolish moves in combat, not merely because my instructors told me so, but because in the midst of youthful arrogance I thought that I knew better than they and did so anyway, against their advice. The result was a broken spear and nearly becoming food for a pack of hungry raptors, and being saved from such a fate only by one of my seniors intervening in time."
"Queen or no, I will not be lectured on lancework by one who is little more than a child and has no experience in the art. Just as I would not presume to lecture you on magecraft."
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Date: 2024-11-02 12:55 am (UTC)From:"Tell me, girl, have you ever wielded a polearm in earnest, when it was all that stood between you and the jaws of a beast, or the blade of an enemy? Judging by your arms, I sincerely doubt it. What I know of lancework I've learned by living and breathing the art for nearly as long as you've been alive at all. I know that such things as you just described are foolish moves in combat, not merely because my instructors told me so, but because in the midst of youthful arrogance I thought that I knew better than they and did so anyway, against their advice. The result was a broken spear and nearly becoming food for a pack of hungry raptors, and being saved from such a fate only by one of my seniors intervening in time."
"Queen or no, I will not be lectured on lancework by one who is little more than a child and has no experience in the art. Just as I would not presume to lecture you on magecraft."