"Before we wrap this up, have any of you seen my axe? It"s disappeared since my fight with the champion, and I can"t seem to find it anywhere." Jack said."Yes, I am aware." Urien said, nodding. "And unfortunately, now that you remind me, I have some bad news for you."
He got up and walked to the far side of the room, and picked up something off of the table there. Then something else. And then another object. All at once, Jack felt a horrible sinking sensation in his gut.
Urien walked back over and had a seat in his wooden chair, setting a long bundle wrapped in dark cloth on the floor beside him. In front of him on his lap was another bundle, which he untied and folded out in front of him on the floor. Rose gasped, and covered her mouth.
There, in the center of the dark fabric, were the pieces of Jack"s axe. The head and perhaps a foot and a half of the handle made up one piece, the wood ending in a near perfectly clean cut that matched the cut on the handle it"d been severed from perfectly. His heart dropped into his stomach. It was destroyed. Another one of his wishes destroyed, just like that. Try as he might, he couldn"t help the tears that started to well up in his eyes.
"I"m sorry, Jack. We found it like this next to you when you were rescued." Urien said, seeing the emotion on Jack"s face. "While I don"t know for sure, as clean as the cut is, and the way the champion fell, it was probably severed by its sword when it tried to parry your final strike. I had our smiths look at it. No one here has the skill to mend it, if it can even be mended."
Jack buried his face into his palm, wiping the moisture out of them and sighing heavily.
"Well, at least I know where it is." He said, reaching out and pulling the bundle over to him.
"But, before you despair, I have something for you. We might not be able to fix your weapon, but we can at least give you something to replace it."
He reached down and picked up the long bundle beside him, and set it in his lap before unwrapping it end first. As the wrapping fell away, he saw it was the scabbard of a sword. Looking it over, Jack recognized the flowery hilt of the Gnoll Champion"s curved sword.
"Before you say anything, know that we in the Green Company have a rule that the possessions of anything a company member kills is the property of that member, no questions asked. You are not a member of the Green Company, but considering the circ.u.mstances, it doesn"t seem appropriate to add an enchanted blade like this to our common armory when it clearly belongs to you." Urien said.
Jack reached out and took the scabbard from Urien"s hand, and brought it closer to his eyes. Where the ornate hilt work had been beautiful at a distance, up close, the level of intricacy and detail was staggering. Each petal and leaf had individual seams and veins, and there were even a few that were shaped and burnished in such a way to show signs of starting to wilt. As he placed his hand on the weapon"s handle, he couldn"t help but feel a faint throbbing hum of magical energy bound inside. He didn"t have to be a genius to know what he was holding was something special.
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Jack looked at the weapon again, and back to the brother. He was almost too flabbergasted to speak. Finally, after a moment, he finally managed to get out "Thank you, Urien. This is really more than I could ever ask for."