...And my axe!

He released the axe as she took it, and leaned back on his hunches. Watching her work as she got started on honing an edge to the metal. It was clearly something she had done before. He held his silence as she worked, recognising the look of someone who did not wish to be disturbed. Here he showed his intuition in reading the moods of others. Knowing wasn’t the same as using, and Delphi would likely be quick to say. Certainly he pushed her buttons.

It was clear when she was done, and he blinked, his own attention back on the moment. “The axe needs to be tested” He said when she asked if he wished to hunt. There was only one sure way to know if the axe would work for her, and that was to kill with it. He felt the ache of his own missing dagger. But the blade was far from the only way he could kill. “What are you thinking of hunting?”

"Speech"