Don't fall

The look said it all.  The reason Kotori hadn’t seen a weapon yet was that the kid didn’t have one.  Ahhh.  “You want to learn to use one but still don't own one, huh?” Kotori hopped off his rock and jogged off a short ways to a nearby tree.  This specific one had a larger broken branch that was just barely still hanging onto the tree, yet the leaves of the branch lay on the earth, the leaves slowly dying.

Kotori considered the branch for a moment before chomping down on it near where the branch attached to the tree.  It took two or three bites and some pulling where he got it just right and the branch broke off.  Then Kotori eyed it, sizing it in his mind, and bit into it further down, getting rid of the thinner part of the branch.  It seemed relatively close to the thickness of a dagger handle, right?

Kotori put a paw on it, lowered his head, and used his horn to scrape off the bark on one end, rolled the stick over till one end had a sharper point.  Picking it up he dropped it near Wylan.  “There you go, practice dagger.  I’d rather not get cut by a real one anyway.”

"Kotori Fatalis"