[quote=YamiCuoreLaroux] "Wow...You've been using them since you were five?" He thought about where he was at that age. "I think I was still in the hospital when I was that little. No, wait, I was out of the hospital by then. I had been living with Papa and Iskä for a year. I couldn't have done anything like that, though." [/quote] "I didn't exactly have a choice." Roxy assured him. "Father said if I wanted to go to school I needed to learn to defend myself. So I kept practicing until I could hold a knife without nearly cutting off my finger."