After the Engineer Royal redonned his shield and she exchanged her blades of metal with ones of wood instead, they began to spar. With her, at least, he was not on top of things, and she exploited opportunity after opportunity to find a way past his defenses. Yet her employer most demanding still commanded that she give him more, and cast down his shield and mace to seize two more of the wooden practice daggers for himself, ordering that she continue to fight him in mock, and teach him the technique which had bested his shadow.