He still didn't know what she was saying, but the universal feminine shooing of eat, eat! came through easily enough. He would've asked more about her martial training, if he could have - and it seemed to him she understood how to go about beginning to learn the forms of combat, so that she probably had experience in another discipline. He'd seen that trick done with skirts before - and always by dangerous women.

"Maybe we'll teach each other a thing or two," Vax'ildan suggested (as if it were an original thought), though he helped himself to a slice of fruit pie for the time being. It seemed then that they'd have all the time they wanted for lessons.