Before anything else can register, she reaches out to take it. A bit too sharp a movement, a bit too sudden to be anything like how she’d normally (politely) grab something offered to her, but it’s right there and before it can vanish in his sleeve again she has it clutched right to her breast, still struggling for words.
So he had taken it. She hadn’t checked his sleeves, had she? He’d lied so well that she had ended up feeling awful for even suspecting him, and now-]
... What did you want for it? Matthias didn’t say.
[Because Matthias was gone, and she’d assumed her chance of getting the knife back along with him. It’s so familiar in her hand, the wooden sheath and boar tusk belt strap of the small all-uses blade her father had bought from a Matagi, carved her favorite flowers onto the side before gifting it to her when she began work on the mountain yard.
It was just a knife... but it was the only thing she had left of a father she wasn’t sure she’d ever see again, even with as much as she smiled as hoped and said they would.]
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Before anything else can register, she reaches out to take it. A bit too sharp a movement, a bit too sudden to be anything like how she’d normally (politely) grab something offered to her, but it’s right there and before it can vanish in his sleeve again she has it clutched right to her breast, still struggling for words.
So he had taken it. She hadn’t checked his sleeves, had she? He’d lied so well that she had ended up feeling awful for even suspecting him, and now-]
... What did you want for it? Matthias didn’t say.
[Because Matthias was gone, and she’d assumed her chance of getting the knife back along with him. It’s so familiar in her hand, the wooden sheath and boar tusk belt strap of the small all-uses blade her father had bought from a Matagi, carved her favorite flowers onto the side before gifting it to her when she began work on the mountain yard.
It was just a knife... but it was the only thing she had left of a father she wasn’t sure she’d ever see again, even with as much as she smiled as hoped and said they would.]