[DON'T APOLOGIZE - he thinks this is amazing!! Her eagerness delights him as his own eyes light up in excitement and he is absolutely just going to relax his hand so that she can turn them over any which way that she likes. There's only open trust here!!]

A sphairai? I'm sorry - I don't believe I've heard that term before, but ah... what was the next question - I'm a hand to hand fighter, yes! Once I held a spear, but those days are behind me. I cast it aside once I made the decision that I wanted to forge my country through bonds and unity rather than blood and war.

[THAT'S DRAMATIC.

THIS IS FINE.]