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Veili
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Since she fully expected to be denied access to the weapon, Elizabeth didn't really react right away. It took her a full second to comprehend that this guy was actually willing to part with the sword, a potentially bad idea. Another full second to formulate a befuddled "Really?" and a third one to react and grab the handle, pulling it out of Veilis hands with little regard for the safety of his fingers.

The little crowd around them had mostly dispersed by then, but the remaining few observers scuttled away now, at the sight of Elizabeth Seyes with a longsword in her hands. 'Smart little buggers', she thought. Completely disregarding the possible hurry Veili was in, Lizzy took a very close look at the tool, the transition between blade and handguard/handle in specific. She devoured every inch of it with her eyes, turning the blade to view all of it in different angles of light. It was hard to say if she actually received viable information like this, since she merely produced incomprehensible but numerous 'Huh.' and 'Mhm.' sounds while doing so, but the truth is, she learned all she needed to from this procedure. After the visual inspection was covered, she pointed the tip at Veili, stretching her right arm out and holding the weapon almost perfectly horizontal, as if to test out its weight...with virtually zero visible effort. Lizz then ran her left thumb over the length of the blades edge to test its sharpness, portraying an expression of decided approval.

"This isn't half bad handiwork. Where'd you get that?"

, she asked while running her index finger over the contour of the runes etched into the material, wrinkling her nose at what she perceived to be the main flaw of the swords design. Or rather, at the fact that a lot of effort and time went into this specific detail the weapon was well presentable without. Not really waiting for an answer, the girl cut a slow diagonal line through the air between them, supporting her dominant hand with her left one. Not to support the weight of the sword, but to increase the precision and elegance of the cut. All of this yielded her a disapproving look of the guard who initially stopped Veili, but the man didn't dare to intervene again after the Headmaster stopped him just earlier. She tossed the blade into the air, flipping it by precisely 360 degrees before catching it at the handle again.

"Nicely balanced." 

What happened then was less to be expected, and caused people to walk around them in a wider respectful distance. She implied flipping and catching it again, only the catching part went missing. Instead the blade gradually slowed down on its way to the ground, coming to a full halt roughly at the height of Elizabeths shoulder, where it kept floating, pointing forward. For a moment, it seemed as if the girl was aiming over the blade of the weapon, much like someone would aim with a rifle, before she grabbed it out of its hovering position again. Finally, she rammed the blade half a foot into the earth again, holding the handle with her right and setting a foot roughly at the half point between tip and pommel. Applying force to test out how sturdy the material was. One could now argue about human muscle performance and the stability of metal, but everything about Lizz made the attentive observer suspect that she could actually break a sword in two like that. Not this time though, for more than one reason. 

"Very accessible, a little unprecise and it could do without the enchantment if you ask me. How much are you selling it for?"

Everything she had seen about Veili so far made her assume he was some sort of merchant. That'd contradict his appearance greatly, but of all people Elizabeth should [b]not[/b] be the person to even consider this train of thought.