"I'll take your word for it." And she did so with a tilt of her head. Metal would be even easier, but given the chaos at the blacksmith that morning, she was going to assume that wasn't an option here.

The new information got her to glance away for a moment, though. She hadn't even considered that there'd be...

In retrospect, maybe she was a bit too used to half-destroyed cities. "Would you believe it's been a while since I've been somewhere that's not wrecked?"