Once or twice someone had asked, after a bout, why Leris did not take her bow in her real body. How could she respond? How could she explain that her human form was hers but not her, not in the way the spear form was? Since the earliest days of swordform there had been stories of people who were more weapon than person. Leris didn’t feel like she was a weapon, but she’d never been able to articulate a different explanation.