"You could do worse than a knife," he muses, almost absently. "With a sword or a spear, you can hunt and you can kill, but with a knife you can mark your path, cut ropes or vines for snares, gather herbs and leaves, gut and skin your meat, and, for that matter, kill a man before he knows you've a blade. I'd sooner have a sword or an axe at my side when it came to a fight, but if the game's survival, a heavy weapon can be as much of a hindrance as a help. Especially for someone your size," he adds hastily, realising he's rambling away from her in the conversation. "Anything with an edge can be a weapon, in a tight spot. How are you with a small blade?"