Knife in hand, Cryton prepared to thrust. “Ready?”
Dru’s gloved hand made a fist. “Oh yeah.”
Cryton loosed a sparring stab as Dru yelled.
“Veda!”
Yanked by awakened magnetism, the metal blade clanked striking the glove’s adamantine oval.
“That’s brilliant,” Cryton complemented, knife stuck. “How’d you learn its name?”
“Reading.”
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