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“Shall I help you?” he offered smiling at all thirty two.

“I will mana…,” and I felt a little bump under my thumb, pressing it automatically… Nothing! And then I swiped my index aside and it moved – the ring in the handle did move.

“Aha! Here you come!”

Snap! And something got in its place. I gave a triumphant scream. But at that moment the blades got out of the handle and dropped on the floor with a clink full of resentment. I was shocked, and stood there, not able to move, holding what remained from my beautiful blades.

And Truvle was laughing so hard I thought he would bust a gut. He laughed so that the floor was shaking, and his already red face got burgundy.

“I imagined this moment more than a dozen times while making these,” he moaned with laughter. “But you still went beyond my expectation!”

And he went on laughing wiping the tears streaming down his round face.

I could feel my face going crimson. Not with laughter, though, but anger. What the heck were his tricks?! Why the broken blades? Not funny!

“Okay, dear, just don’t get mad,” he seemed to be reading my mind. “A joke … a little one. And you have a closer look at the piece now.”

I looked down and saw the same two blades on the floor, yet this time I could see iron chains connecting the blades and the handles I was still holding pressed tightly in my hands. The chains were thin, thinner than my little finger.

“Well… And this is…?” I was still puzzled.

“Look here,” Truvle got up, came closer and took the handles. “You turn the ring to the right and the chains come out; turn left – they get in…”

Next moment I could hear a click and the chains, like two snakes, rushed back into the handle.

“Makes it some kind of a claw-tipped whip,” Truvle said turning one of the blades between his fingers.

“Well, it does look like something… er… sophisticated,” but how would I ever manage all this? The moment I try to use it I will kill myself, so the enemy won’t even have to attack,” I still had doubt whether I would ever learn how to use the weapon.