79 Sword (1/2)
It was a 1.2 meter long and about 6 cm width package, that was wrapped in a piece of red cloth. Without any hesitation she then unwrapped the item, uncovering a sword, which was in a scabbard. As such only the hilt was visible. It was of a plain design, as it was completely black with only a golden spiral winding around the grip. Ivan wasn't sure what it was made out of, since it surely wasn't iron or a simple steel.
”This looks like a good sword, but how did you get the idea to gift him a sword?”
”This was actually quite easy. The prophecy said that the gift had to include a weapon and when we were fighting on stage, I saw that he was using a simple iron sword. So I asked uncle about it and he told me that it was the only one he could afford. That's why I took out one of the swords from grandpas collection.”
When Jenny heard, what her nice said she threw a accusing look towards her husband. ”You knew about this?”
Carl hastily shook his head, ”No, no. She only asked me about the sword Ivan used. I thought it was because of something that happend during their fight. I never would have thought that this would lead to her gifting him a sword.”
Seeing him defend himself like this Ivan had to hold back his laughter. Most of the time his mentor seemed to be domineering. But seeing him like this he realized that Jenny was the real boss and his mentor could only obey her.
”Wait, you took it out of your grandpas collection?”
”Yes. Is there a problem with that?”
”A problem?”, Jenny nearly screamed. ”Don't you know how much dad cherishes his sword collection? He didn't even let Carl touch any of these swords. And he is after all his son in law. And now you took one and gifted it away?”
She knew that her dad liked to spoil his granddaughter, but she was sure that it wasn't to the extend of him allowing her to take something out of his collection and gift it to someone, who strictly speaking had no relationship with their family.
”Oh, I kinda forgot about it.”, said Lin, without showing even the least bit of embarrassment. Ivan was sure that she neither forgot about it, nor did she care about it. After seeing her interact with her aunt he had understood, that her personality was quite different than his first impression of her.
Although she had a ice cold face, which barely showed any expression, while communicating with her family, there wasn't any cold feeling. Instead there was a warmth, he hadn't seen before, and which made him slightly envious. Even though he had Jane, which whom he too had a blood connection, they couldn't interact the same way, these two did. They had only met a short time ago, so there was still some distance between them and Lara's attitude towards him didn't help.
”You! Whatever, but I really want to see what dad is going to do to you if he finds out.”