Two Days Late So Far…
(Swords with Souls)
Fantasy Fiction
By Dan Watt
(Author of BARD: Bearer of the Gemstone)
(Author of the Plagueborn series)
– Adult content –
As he got older and was able to handle a sword, he started to remember some of the lessons his father taught him about heat and different metals. The bronze swords they were given were heavy on the wrist and all exactly the same dimensions. So, he used two rocks, one as a chisel, and the other as a hammer to create a fuller in the blade. He also wrapped the grip with vine to make it a bit thicker and used sap to keep it from unraveling. The older orphan teaching him how to wield a sword, was furious and showed Lord Idris. What Lord Idris did in reply was the reason so many students adored him. ‘Why did you do this Egbert?’ he asked while inspecting the fuller of the sword.
‘It was too heavy, Lord,’ he replied, tensing his muscles to take the cuff or whatever punishment would be meted out.
‘And the grip?’
‘Too loose,’ he replied.
‘Let’s see you wield it.’
Egbert, as he was known then, did excellent thrusts, slashes, and parlays, just as he had been taught.
‘Let me have your sword. Now do the same with someone else’s.’ Lord Idris pointed to a student to give Egbert his sword.
Egbert hated the feel of the other sword but did his best but the movements were choppy.
‘I will see if I can get one of the armies weapon makers to come here for a time, and teach you how to make different sized swords.” Lord Idris said then handed him back his sword.
That was the day he became Lord Idris’s boy, as the others called him. But there snickering was misguided. They should have called him Lord Idris’s apprentice. He was no one’s boy and Lord Idris never tried to treat him as so.
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