Perfect sense. [He mimics Saturday's stance, finding that lightness in his feet, watches Guts' body language as well. He likes that way she's put it, that it's more about the thoughtfulness and the restraint than the aggression. That somehow warms him to the blade a little more.]

Most of the experience I have with a blade's about hacking at wild animals and through undergrowth if you get attacked in the woods. Deer-brush don't pick up in telegraphing that well. Swordfighting's mostly in the movies in my world.

[Not always.]