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[gredya]

So getting a sheep was quicker than getting a gun, but in some ways more annoying. But that's in the past. Now, Karel's here with a sheep, am unharmed but very unhappy sheep at the end of a rope tether, and a bundle wrapped up in a big striped cloth that some here might recognize as an American flag.

He and his sheep wait outside, of course. For Shephard in particular, but he doesn't mind chatting with anyone else he knows.

((Warnings on the links, I guess for, uh, unarmed robbery and the intimidation of gentle mythological creatures?))

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[athelstanthescribe]

"No", he agrees. "Only if you know well in advance that you're going to need to. But a good stick can be used again and again until it breaks."

[gredya]

You could walk with a stick--if you were always on two feet. Well, it's still worth learning. Karel swings his branch around two-handed: a kid with a toy sword.

[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan watches with a critical eye, taking it seriously - and he's learned quite a bit from Sonya, he's always been a fast learner.

"That's not a bad way to get your force behind it... but maybe not so good for aiming."

[gredya]

Oh, he's just playing. Karel shrugs and drops the point of his weapon. "You show me."

[athelstanthescribe]

We apologise, Karel. Athelstan's forgotten how to play, it's very sad.

"Like this." He demonstrates a strike with the stick.

[gredya]

Karel copies it closely: he's good at physical imitation and memory. "What if you fight someone with another kind of thing? You have a stick, she has a sword?"

[athelstanthescribe]

"Then you block her sword with your stick as best you can, strike her if you can", he says pragmatically, "and try to make her lose her sword - or at least keep her from harming you with it. I'm told someone skilled with a staff can actually win such a fight."

[gredya]

"Show me." Abruptly, he swings his stick around again, like a sword. Well, like a stick in the hands of a kid who doesn't know how to use a sword, but he's trying.

[athelstanthescribe]

"I'm not particularly skilled", Athelstan warns him - but then, neither is Karel. "But from what I do know, it's done like this."

He swings his branch against Karel's, slowly so the boy can watch the movement.