"Depends on what you're using it for," she says with an answering grin, but it softens a moment later, conceding. It would be hard to hide from the other young folk, if not the staff, and Mithros knows how bad it might get if someone nearer his age tried to take it off him. She doesn't know that they'd succeed -- Jamie talks about weapons too easily to be anything but comfortable with them, and that speaks to experience -- but someone would doubtless get hurt in the trying.

"Weapons are a part of normal life in my realm," Daine says, hitching her shoulders in a little shrug. "That's why I want a longbow. I've another bow I bought here, a different sort, but..." she shakes her head and purses her lips, disapproving and scornful. "It's built so a baby could just about draw it. I'll lose my touch and end up embarrassing myself at this rate."