<b>Allassiel watched the two hobbits test out the daggers, which seemed more like swords in their small hands. “Careful to swing that,” she called out, stepping aside as Pippen tested his out. <br/>
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Pegawen, in the meantime, came up behind them to study the runes. “They look like nothing I've seen,” she murmured, her curiosity peaked by the strange writing. She grinned, listening to Timberlane warn the hobbits about the dangers of magic. She, too, wanted to know what they meant. She reached up, rubbing the rune-stone on her necklace. “We should learn them. They may be useful.”</b><br/><br/>“<b>Or they could singe your eyebrows off, like that one time when you were reading your master's books without permission,” Allassiel quipped. When Thorgan suggested that the sword was being offered to her, she gave him a baffled look. “How can someone dead long offer anything?” she asked, but her eyes wandered back to the sword. She reached out, wrapping her hand around the hilt – a simple but elegant design with a small gem in the center - before pulling it from its sheath, the hollow ring filling the air. “It is very light,” she commented, bringing it up to her face to study it before taking a couple of experimental swings. She followed Thorgan's finger to where he pointed. If it had indeed belonged to a queen, then perhaps she was not the right person for it. She was no royalty after all – just a warrior.</b>